It is not quite clear what your problem is.
Branches are for lines of development, i.e. parallel development of
variants with a common ancestor and some need to merge changes between
branches and trunk. Is that what you have to do?
Maybe you just want an easy way to retrieve the set of revisions that is
related to a specific release. You don't need branches for that, just a
'release' tag or a date. You can branch at that release point later if
you need.
If you don't have release tags yet, you can easily tag (or retrieve) the
set of revisions at a specific date and time.
There is a description of cvs branches, what they are good for, and some
advice on practices in the cvs documentation. See the section 'Branching
and merging'.
See also 'Open Source Development with CVS', Chapter 6 'Going Out On A
Limb', http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.htm.
Kind regards
Peter Ring
karyn hunt wrote:
Hi Guys,
I know this is somewhat off topic, but perhaps the responses will be
helpful for others. I've been checking my FrameMaker files in to CVS for
source control purposes and just felt the sting of not having used
branches. In other words, I've always checked my FrameMaker files right
in to the head and overwritten them with each new release. Until this
week, that wasn't a problem. But this week, I began to see the
shortcomings of that system.
So I'm wondering, how many of you out there use branching when
checking your Frame files in to a source code control system and how
many of you just overwrite in one place?
Karyn Hunt
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