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Re: Mass moving files onto branch
From: |
Stephen Rasku |
Subject: |
Re: Mass moving files onto branch |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:51:04 -0800 (PST) |
Derek Price wrote:
>
>Stephen Rasku wrote:
>
>> One of our developers wants to mass move a bunch of files from the
>> HEAD to a branch. There are binary files and text files. Some are
>> the same name and some have been renamed. He has proposed to
simply
>> "cvs rm" the entire contents of the module and then "cvs add" the
>> contents of the HEAD.
>>
>> Does anyone see anything wrong with that? Is there a better way?
>
>Not really, if you don't mind the extra log message (for each deleted
>revision), but is there a reason you're not just creating a new
branch
>from HEAD?
>
The reason is that the branch is contains the history for the current
production release of the software. We need to maintain this branch
until we release the current version.
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Stephen Rasku E-mail: address@hidden
Senior Software Engineer Web: http://www.tgivan.com/
TGI Technologies http://www.pop-star.net/