Noel,

to answer your question:

>  # hold onto the current project, with some private code
>  $mv jakarta-james jakarta-james.HEAD
>  # checkout a clean build of the new branch
>  $cvs checkout -r <branch-name> jakarta-james
>  # rename the directory to reflect the branch
>  $mv jakarta-james jakarta-james.<branch-name>
>  # rename the temporary directory back
>  $mv jakarta-james.HEAD jakarta-james
>
> And then I just work in one or the other sub-tree as normal?  Is that the
> right idea?

Yes that will work 100% as described.
You can, however, specify the name of the output directory directly in the
command and achieve the same result in a single blow:

$cvs checkout -r <branch-name> -d <directory-name> jakarta-james

d.


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