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Re: importing vendor branch and removed files
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: importing vendor branch and removed files |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:51:37 -0500 (EST) |
Spiro Trikaliotis writes:
>
> Furthermore, I found out that it would be better (for my use of CVS) to
> import the sources not on a vendor's branch, but on the main branch. The
> reason for this is the following: I am part of an open source project. I
> want to use CVS to track the official releases and developer's release,
> while working on my own branches (which I send in as diffs, so they are
> included in the latest developer's release). Naturally, the imported
> sources are the main branch. I don't want to keep local changes. So the
> main branch would be the best for my fits.
>
> Is there a possibility to import sources on the main branch, despite
> using cvs add, cvs remove and cvs commit to handle this all by hand (or
> "by skript")?
No; import always goes to the vendor branch. And that's really what you
want to do -- you work on the trunk and the official releases go on a
branch. To discard your local changes, just revert to the lastest
vendor release:
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_13.html#SEC107>
-Larry Jones
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. -- Calvin