Cvs Attic Branch

This chapter explains tags branches and how to merge branches and trunks.

Cvs attic branch. Adding new files to branch puts them in the attic dennis jones 2001 02 23. You can use the admin command to reassign a symbolic name to a branch the way rcs expects it to be. Cvs searches attic files to determine whether the revision existed in those files. See section revision numbers.

H display usage information about the specified cvs command but do not actually execute the command. For example if the cvsroot is usr local cvsroot and we are talking about the file backend c in the directory yoyodyne tc then the file normally would be in usr local cvsroot yoyodyne tc backend c v but if it goes in the attic it would be in usr local cvsroot yoyodyne tc attic backend c v instead. The magic branch number appears in the output from cvs log. The exact details of how the branch number is constructed is not something you normally need to be concerned about but here is how it works.

For obscure reasons cvs always gives branches even numbers starting at 2. The attic you will notice that sometimes cvs stores an rcs file in the attic. So when you want to create a branch from revision 6 4 it will be numbered 6 4 2. Cvs does a pretty good job at hiding these so called magic branches but in a few places the hiding is incomplete.

If you don t specify a command name cvs h displays a summary of all the commands available q causes the command to be really quiet. Find a cvs pharmacy near you including 24 hour locations and passport photo labs. If release 1 0 corresponds to revision 1 4 the branch s revision number will be 1 4 2. You cannot specify a symbolic branch name to cvs admin.

As the output from the status command shows the branch number is created by adding a digit at the tail of the revision number it is based on. The a option is unnecessary if r is specified. Cvs pharmacy stores in inglewood california. Adding new files to branch puts them in the attic david l.

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Adding new files to branch puts them in the attic laine stump 2001 02 23. The version that has been forked off is called a branch and the main line of development is called the trunk.