Re: [boost] CVS development branches?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-07 12:28:33

At 09:02 AM 3/7/2001 -0800, Darin Adler wrote:

 >on 3/7/01 6:24 AM, Beman Dawes at bdawes_at_[hidden] wrote:
 >
 >> So far so good.  But doing that will leave the initially committed
 >version
 >> of each file as part of the main trunk.  So the questions are,
 >>
 >> How do you tag (or otherwise mark) files as not part of the main trunk?
 >
 >You can do a cvs remove command on the file in the main trunk (and commit
 >that change). This leaves the file on the branches it's already on, but 
not
 >on the main trunk. The file can be re-added to the main trunk with cvs 
add
 >later on, which "resurrects" the file. (The only idiosyncrasy here is 
that
 >newly added files are always on the main trunk, and have to be removed 
from
 >it. Also, newly added files are not part of any branch until they are
 >tagged as such.)

Cool!  Thanks, Darin.  I've also been experimenting, and came up with the 
following procedure, which also seems to work.  Forgive the WinCvs centric 
notes - they should translate one-to-one to command line cvs.

--Beman

To add a new branch-only directory (for development) without any main trunk 
file or directory sub-entries:

*  Not using WinCvs, create the directory and files via any method desired.

*  Using WinCvs, continue.

*  Select the folder (ie the directory) and Modify | Add.  Note that there 
isn't any way to update or branch

something that isn't in the CVS repository, so you must add the folder 
first.

*  Select the folder and Modify | Create branch...  Give it a name like 
"mylib-initial".  [This generates: cvs

tag -b mylib-initial]

*  Select the folder and Modify | Update selection...  Select Sticky 
options, Retrieve branch.  Select branch

name from pull down list.  [This generates: cvs update -P -r mylib-initial, 
which makes the -r mylib-initial

"sticky", so it applies to subsequent operations.]

*  Select the files (or sub-directories, sub-dirs one-at-a-time), and 
Modify | Add.

*  Modify | Commit... the same selection.

That's all!

In the display window, the Tag field will show "mylib-initial".

In the online WebCvs, the files will be invisable unless you look in the 
attic.