Keith Refson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One problem I regularly face is: how to build two different versions of > a project which differ in only a very small subset of files. One of > these versions is obviously the trunk version. It would be extremely > convenient if this could be achieved by simply
> cvs co (or update) -A myproject > cvs co (or update) -r Version_B myproject > to switch between them. > [ ... ] > I recenty came across a suggestion of how to do this, and it does work > when I tried it out. The idea is simple - just add the branch at the > numeric version "1": > cvs admin -nVersion_B:1 > [ ... ] > I'm asking for any opinions on whether this is a safe thing to do, and any > potential difficulties, mild or severe, which might arise. It should be ok, but I'm always weary of long-lived branches. After a while you might want to re-graft your branch higher up on the trunk (for the files that do change). If you don't see what I mean, do an advanced search on groups.google.com for Message-Id "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . -- pa at panix dot com _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
