merging main trunk to branch?

2000-08-17 Thread cchiu
Hi, I am new to CVS and I use WinCVS as the front end on a local repository. I have a module with a main trunk. There is a branch off that trunk that I use as experiment code. Is there a way to merge the lastest changes on the main trunk to the branch code? I don't want the experiment

Re: merging main trunk to branch?

2000-08-17 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 05:30:32PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to CVS and I use WinCVS as the front end on a local repository. I have a module with a main trunk. There is a branch off that trunk that I use as experiment code. Is there a way to merge the lastest changes

Re: merging main trunk to branch?

2000-08-17 Thread Stephen Cameron
Mike Castle wrote: So, for your situation, yuou have something like this: Branch point v 0+ Main | +--- Test Now, hopefully you labled the branch point with something when you created the branch. Otherwise, this is a pain. (Allow me to advertise

Re: merging main trunk to branch?

2000-08-17 Thread Derek R. Price
One of the tricks I sometimes use, to avoid having to keep track of branch points, is to only merge from any given branch once. Thus, in this case, I would create branch2 from the main trunk and merge the changes from the first branch forward onto the new branch. cvs up -A# get the main

Re: merging main trunk to branch?

2000-08-17 Thread Rich Salz
Again, I think my "get date from file" patch would help here. Do -jbranch:date:.last right?