Re: Branch removal and nested branches

[Donald Sharp]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:24:58PM -0400, Donald Sharp wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:19:56PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> > Donald Sharp writes:
> > > 
> > > Also, Removing the branch with tag -d doesn't really remove the data,
> > > it only removes the branch name from the symbols section of the
> > > ,v file.  You can put yourself in situations where you create
> > > a new branch( and it reuses the old branch number ), and
> > > then all of a sudden that new branch has a lot of versions on it.
> > 
> > No, CVS is smarter than that.  When deciding what revision numbers to
> > use for a new branch, it looks at the existing revisions, not just the
> > tags.
> 
> urmmm... That's not been my experience.
> 
> Here's my experience:
> 
> user deletes a branch with tag -d 
> 
> user creates a new branch, and cvs used the same branch number.
> 
> Let me go back and see if I can find more information for you...
> Or if I am smoking too much of my daily alotment of crack.

I went back and checked.  I accidently smoked too much of my
daily alotment ;)  

Larry's right( as usual )

donald
> 
> donald
> 
> > 
> > -Larry Jones
> > 
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