branching

[David Carlton]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:55:34 -0700 (PDT), Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> said:

> To create the symbol tag in mainline (I use rtag, since it will tag 
> the repository copy, not any local copy):
> $ cvs rtag kseitz_interps-DATE-merge gdb+dejagnu

> Then to apply the tag to my branch, I "cd" into my branch sources
> $ cd my-branch/src
> $ cvs -q update -j kseitz_interps-LASTDATE-merge  \
>   -j kseitz_interps-DATE-merge gdb+dejagnu

> Finally resolve any conflicts and "cvs ci". 
 
Thanks.  I still don't understand rtag completely, but at least I know
what to type now...

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu