[cvsnt] Renaming a branch

[Flávio Etrusco]

Good call! BTW I've just noticed http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/CvsCommand
doesn't mention the '-A' options...
And we should probably discourage the use of 'tag' and '[files]' and
instead run 'rtag' for the whole module, right?

-Flávio

On 1/31/06, Daniel Lapolla <ldlapolla at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Or you can use another approach:
>
> 1. create an alias branch of the branch you want to rename:
>
>         cvs tag -A -b -r old_branch_name new_branch_name [your files]
>
> 2. remove the old branch name:
>
>         cvs tag -d -B old_branch_name [your files]
>
> Both operations will work with rtag too.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> Paulo Soares wrote:
> > admin -n did the trick although it's not documented in the CVSNT
> > documentation.
> >
> > Paulo
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org
> >> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Rick Genter
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:54 PM
> >> To: Rick Genter
> >> Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> >> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Renaming a branch
> >>
> >> A branch is a tag. Using standard CVS, you can do this with
> >> admin -n. I
> >> presume you can do the same with CVSNT. The Cederqvist explains how to
> >> do this (you create a new tag with the value of the old tag,
> >> then delete
> >> the old tag).
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rick Genter
> >> Principal Engineer
> >> Silverlink Communications
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org
> >> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
> >> Of Mike Wake
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:46 AM
> >> To: Paulo Soares
> >> Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> >> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Renaming a branch
> >>
> >> How courageous are you.
> >>
> >> The only way I have been able to achieve this is by hacking the ,v
> >> files.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Mikew
> >>
> >> Paulo Soares wrote:
> >>> I need to rename a branch name. The docs have info about renaming a
> >> tag
> >>> (actually a new name followed by delete) but I've no idea
> >> how to do it
> >>> for a branch.
> >>>
> >>> Paulo
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