Re: switch branch to main trunk ?

[Mike Castle]

In article <address@hidden>,
Rabbit Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
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>hello all:
>  I use cvs and work in branch of cvs.now I want to change this branch
>to main trunk and change original main trunk to a branch.
>  How to do?


The way you worded it makes me wonder *why* you want to do this.  Are you
sure you need to?

Meanwhile, taking your request literally, I see two ways of interpretting
it.

One, you want to rotate branches.  Two, that you want to merge the branch
onto main then branch again.

In the first case, create a new branch off of main, then merge the old
branch onto main.  Something like this:

cvs up -A   # make sure on main branch
cvs tag newbranch_bp   # make a branch point tag for reference
cvs tag -b -r newbranch_bp newbranch   # create new branch
cvs up -j oldbranch   # merge changes from old branch onto main
   # do fixups here
cvs commit -m "merged oldbranch onto main"


In the second case, do something like:

cvs up -A
cvs up -j oldbranch
   # do fixups here
cvs commit -m "merged oldbranch onto main"
cvs tag newbranch_bp
cvs tag -b -r newbranch_bp newbranch

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