RE: Tagging the head of a branch and branching off a branch

[Jim.Hyslop]

Fouts Christopher wrote:
> I have a repository called sample, which I tagged as follows...
>       > cvs rtag -r HEAD t_REL sample
> 
> I then created a branch of the files with this tag...
>       > cvs rtag -r t_REL -b b_DEV sample
> 
> Correct?
> 
> How do I now tag the HEAD of the b_DEV branch, and subsequently
> create a branches from it, say, b_DEV_CF and b_DEV_JS???
>From this point on, the tag "b_DEV" will always refer to the head of the
branch, so just substitute b_DEV for HEAD in the above commands:

cvs rtag -r b_DEV t_WHATEVER sample
cvs rtag -r t_WHATEVER -b bt_WHATEVER sample

You should try to minimize the branching-from-a-branch. CVS will handle it
with no problems, but users can easily get confused if your branch structure
gets too complex.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)