Re: Delete a branch

[Sanjay Bhatia]

Thanks Max and Larry for your replies.

I am convinced that our server is too old to deal with the -B flag.

Here's the situation I am trying to fix.  I have a testing branch that was
created many changes ago from the dev. branch.  I need to sync them up.  I was
thinking of deleting the test branch and then re-creating it.

Is there a way to do this with a join instead?  Will the join take care of
files that are deleted from the dev. branch but exist in the test branch?

Thanks,
sb


--- Max Bowsher <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sanjay Bhatia wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a branch that I need to delete.
> 
> Please explain why you need to delete the branch.
> Deleting branches is often highly undesirable.
> 
> > I followed the instructions in the
> > manual (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_4.html#IDX125)
> > and adding a -B option did not help.  I tried 'cvs rtag -B -d branchname
> > modulename' and I got a message saying that -B is not a valid option.
> 
> Sounds like your cvs client is too old.
> 
> NB: cvs rtag -d -B does NOT delete a branch. It only untags it. This is only
> a good idea if no revisions have *ever* been commited on the branch. If any
> have, the result of untagging is to leave anonymous branch revisions. By
> some definitions, this could be called corruption of the repository.
> 
> 
> Max.
> 


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