Re: Abandoning head for branch?

[KEVIN ZEMBOWER]

That did exactly what I wanted. Thank you, Aaron, for your help.  -Kevin

>>> "Aaron S. Hawley" <address@hidden> 09/12/03 05:46PM >>>
okay, forget about the rcs -o comment.

perhaps,

co -u1.2 file # get a working copy of 1.2
rcs -l1.3 file # lock the head
*edit file*
ci -r2 file # checkin on main as 2

i didn't read the post you referenced, but probably would have better
understood your problem if i had.
/a

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:

> Thanks, Aaron, that's almost exactly what I wanted to do, and exactly
> what I described. However, is there anyway to do this while still
> keeping r1.3, for historical purposes?
>
> Thanks, again, for your help.
>
> -Kevin
>
> >>> "Aaron S. Hawley" <address@hidden> 09/12/03 02:33PM >>>
>
> rcs -o1.3 file
>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
>
> > There must be a way to do this, but I can't figure it out.
> >
> > I have a file I've modified and checked in, up to version 1.3. I want
> > to abandon r1.3, checkout r1.2, make changes to it and check it back
> > in as r2.0 and have it treated as the default head version from then
> > on. How can I do this?
> >
> > Ashwin Patil asked almost this exact question in the archives at
> > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-rcs/2002-06/msg00012.html, but I
> > couldn't find an answer to his question posted.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > -Kevin Zembower


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