RE: How can I administratively freeze a branch?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Korn 
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   Greetings.
 
   I have a project which was branched some time ago and now the branch
 has been merged back to HEAD. No further changes must be made to the old
 DEV2 branch, it is officially dead.  
 
   Is there a way I can prevent developers from mistakenly committing to
 that branch (appart from deleting it)? 
 

  Why not just cvs rm all the files from it, so they no longer exist at
the head of the branch?  People would have to accidentally checkout old
revisions before they could accidentally commit to it; that's pretty
improbable I think.


cheers,
  DaveK
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RE: How can I administratively freeze a branch?

2005-07-07 Thread r.pedroche.novillo 
   Why not just cvs rm all the files from it, so they no 
 longer exist at the head of the branch?  People would have to 
 accidentally checkout old revisions before they could 
 accidentally commit to it; that's pretty improbable I think.

  The problem is that files from old branch still exist in
HEAD (in fact, what we did was to commit the branched files
to HEAD).


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Re: How can I administratively freeze a branch?

2005-07-07 Thread Jim Hyslop 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Why not just cvs rm all the files from it, so they no 
longer exist at the head of the branch?  People would have to 
accidentally checkout old revisions before they could 
accidentally commit to it; that's pretty improbable I think.



  The problem is that files from old branch still exist in
HEAD (in fact, what we did was to commit the branched files
to HEAD).

I don't understand your objection.

'cvs remove' on a branch will declare the tip of the branch dead, 
thereby preventing anyone from checking anything into the branch. It's 
exactly what you want to do.


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