branching

[Andrew Cagney]

> 
> In fact, if you really want to be advanced, and not deal with the 
> slowdown on merged files that haven't been modified by you on the branch, 
> but have been on the merge (This is hard to explain. If you merge from 
> the head, and commit the result, it makes a new revision in the file, 
> even if you haven't made changes on the branch. This eventually makes 
> accessing the branch *quite* slow), you can just move the branch tags on 
> the files you haven't modified on the branch, so that they refer to the 
> new mainline revision.
> 
> Sounds more difficult complex than it is.

You don't happen to have a script?  (Yes, for long lived branches things 
do start to get slow).  The other option is to fix CVS I guess.

Andrew