[cvsnt] Re: Branch "1"

[Thomas Singer]

Yes, that's what I consider the normal way of creating branches. But somehow 
the client managed to create a branch "1" on top of the main trunk 
revisions, which sounded a little bit strange to me.

--
Best regards,
Thomas Singer


Bo Berglund schrieb:
> Creating a branch means the following:
> 
> 1) Tag with the -b flag. The branch tag name is something like
> Branch_MyTest or similar
> 2) Update to the branch tag (cvs update -r Branch_MyTest)
> 3) Edit some files in the sandbox
> 4) Commit the edits
> 
> It is not until step 4 that any of the files in the branch will change
> revision number. Until then they will keep their old revisions.
> After the commit there will be two new numbers added to the revision to
> reflect the branch revision. The number of decimal points on any file is
> always odd (1 for files on trunk, 3 for files committed on the first
> level branch, 5 for files committed to a branch off of a branch etc):
> 
> 1.11
> 1.11.1.2
> 1.11.1.6.1.2
> 
> etc
> 
> HTH
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bo Berglund
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
> Of Thomas Singer
> Sent: den 16 mars 2006 09:10
> Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: Branch "1"
> 
> I just got the information from a client, that they created a branch
> (parent 
> branch of the normal main-trunk revisions 1.1, 1.2, ...) with the
> revision 
> "1" somehow and now wanted to get to know, whether this is as-designed
> or by 
> abusing a possible bug in CVS(NT).
> 
> Bo, I don't have the requested information.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Thomas Singer
> 
> 
> Bo Berglund schrieb:
>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:02:02 +0100, Thomas Singer <cvsnt at smartcvs.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it intended to create branches without periods like "1" (without
> quotes)? 
>>> I always thought, that branches are only created with the "cvs (r)tag
> -b" 
>>> command and hence need to have at least two periods.
>> Could you expand your question a bit better?
>> - What do you do? Exact cvs commands please.
>> - What is the result?
>> - What did you expect?
>> - Which version of CVSNT are you using (include the build please)?
>> - On what platform is the server running?
>> - Platform and CVS version for the client?
>>
>>
>> /Bo
>> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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