Re: CVS: versioning and branching

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Steven Armstrong wrote:
>
> If nobody has any objections I'ld like to tag the current CVS state as
> version 1.2. This would give us the possbility to develop towards 1.3 in
> CVS HEAD, while still having the chance to go back and create a branch
> based on v1.2 to fix any urgent bugs/issues that may come up with the
> current release.
>
> What do you think?

I think it's a great idea.  My CVS guru-level is like 0, though, which is 
why I haven't futzed with branches, versions, and the like.  It's one of 
those things in a long list of things I really want to learn/use, but 
haven't gotten around to yet.

So, after you've done whatever it is you're doing, if you could do a quick 
write-up on how to switch between HEAD and other versions and whether 
there are any other process changes beyond the whole:

    cvs update -dP
    ...  do some stuff ...
    cvs commit filex

I'd really appreciate it.  It doesn't have to be anything fancy.  Mostly 
my issue is that I don't know what the various cvs command switches that 
would be needed do.

/will


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