Re: cvs update to branch with -f option

[David Taylor]

Bob Bowen wrote:

> Larry Jones wrote:
> >
> > Branch the entire repository and stop using -f.  Branches are cheap,
> > particularly if you never commit anything on them.  And by branching
> > everything, you can branch wherever you want to get particular revisions
> > of certain files (e.g., at a particular tag).
>
> The disadavantage to branching the entire repository is that you have to do
> unnecessary maintenance to keep up with changes in areas that you aren't
> changing.

Sorry, but I don't understand this. Could you detail what you mean by 
"maintenance
to keep up with changes in areas that you aren't
changing"? Perhaps an example would clear things up for me.

I'm curious because I've never run into any problems with  branching beyond the
scope developers *believe* changes will be limited to.  Yet, doing so eliminates
the frequent iterations  of branching (and the bottleneck of having to stop
development until the request and implementation of the branch is complete) 
that we
would've run into otherwise.

thanks,
dtayl