Branches in CVS repository?

[Thorsten Glaser]

Nick Clifton dixit:

>  * It documents when the branch was started without having to look in the
> logs.

It does not.

                       a                            b
mainline     []---------[]------------[]-------------[]--------------[]----...
                        \                             \
                         \                             \____
                          \                                 \
branch                     []----[]-----[]-------[]---------[]----[]----[]-...
                                                  c         d

You just merge to -rbranch the differences between a and b (-ja -jb)
when you're at c, thus creating d. Now d is obviously not based
upon mainline 'a' but mainline 'b'.

bye,
//mirabile (managing a cvs with about 97k files)