Re: CVS: versioning and branching

On 03/30/05 03:28, Steven Armstrong wrote:
> Done!
> 
> 
> The commands used are (assuming you have CVSROOT set):
> 
> To tag a version: (naming conventions from [1])
> 
> cvs tag "/pyblosxom/release-1_2" "/pyblosxom"
> 
> 
> To checkout a specific version:
> 
> cvs co -r "release-1_2"
> 
> 
> To update/downgrade to a specific version:
> 
> cvs update -r "release-1_2" -d -P "/pyblosxom"
> 
> 
> If you omit the -r "version" flag the cvs client defaults to HEAD, which
> is the same as using -r "HEAD".
> 
> As of my understanding you basically do what you usually do but append
> -r "version" to your command.
> 
> hth
> cheers
> Steven
> 
> [1]
> http://smb.slac.stanford.edu/public/research/developments/blu-ice/dcsAdmin4_1/node153.html
> 

Update:
It seems that the -r flag is sticky.
So once you checked out/updated using it you don't need to specify it
for following actions (e.g. commit).

Please note that I'm only just learning to use all this stuff. So you
should know better than to blindly follow what I write here ;-)



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