Hello, Stephen!
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Stephen Rasku wrote:
> I have noticed that you can check into several branches at once in
> CVS. (i.e. It is possible to check in certain files on one branch and
> other files on another branch simultaneously.)
>
> It's an interesting feature but I was just wondering if there would
> ever be a rational reason that you would ever do this.
Suppose you have two branches: "stable" and "experimental". Normally you
check into the "experimental" branch and then propagate the change to the
"stable" branch (usually after testing).
But suddently you find a serious bug. You can easily verify that the fix
is correct, so that you know that the "stable" branch doesn't become less
stable. In this case you want to check into both branches in the same
time.
But strictly speaking you cannot check into many branches
"simultaneously". You need at least two checkin commands to do it.
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
