Re: Deleting or Renaming a Branch

[email protected] (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jake Colman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I cut a branch from HEAD but did it several weeks too early.  For a
> variety of reasons, I don't want to merge the HEAD into this branch and
> would rather start again from scratch.  Is it possible to delete a
> branch and make as if it never existed?

If nothing was committed on the branch, yes.  Just delete the tag.


> Barring that, is it possible to
> rename a branch so that I can create a new branch but reuse the name?

Yes, with *careful* use of the "cvs admin" command.

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