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Re: Help with tagging


From: Mark E. Hamilton
Subject: Re: Help with tagging
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:22:38 -0600
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Steve,

S I wrote:


I thought the sneakiest solution would be to get the latest from Main (1.375) and bring it into my working copy of the branch and just check it in which will bring the branch now to 1.369 since it'll be just like as though somebody manually edited the file and checked it in. The developers are ok with this method but for my own peace of mind...does this method leave any history?

This is not a sneaky solution; it's normal. When you have bug fixes that need to be made you have to commit them to both the mainline and to the branch separately. You could onsider this the first bug fix for the branch.

However, I'd make the developers do this. If it's painful enough they might pay more attention to deadlines, (or at least informing you that they need the deadline delayed for a commit or two.)

OR

Should I force the tag on the file on the Mainline and then force the branch on it? Is this even possible? How? And if so, is this a better method? Please give me an example.

If it's just the one file, and if no one has started using the branch yet, what I would is delete the branch and reference tags from just that file, then re-tag and re-branch the 1.375 revision. This would mean that the reference tag wouldn't represent a point in time (ie, the day you tagged it,) but it would represent the desired state of the code at that time.

So, what I would do is:

cvs tag -B -d branch_tag incorrect_file
cvs tag -d reference_tag incorrect_file
cvs tag -r 1.375 reference_tag incorrect_file
cvs tag -b -r reference_tag incorrect_file


Thank you

Steve


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