[Gnu-arch-users] Creating and joining branches...

[Esben Mose Hansen]

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Hi,

I can't seem to find a clear how-to to do these two simple tasks:

1. Creating a branch
        Assume you're cd'ed to a tree with a branch "old-branch" from which you 
want 
to create a new branch "new-branch". I always use --0 as version numbers, so 
let's ignore them for now. The best method I have been able to find is:

$ tla tag -S project--new-branch--0

        Is that the best way to do this? I must say that I dislike using "tag" 
as the 
non-existing command "create-branch", but other than that the above method is 
fine, if a bit hard to find. 

2. Joining/switching to a branch
        Let us assume I've a project tree on some branch "branch-apple" and 
want to 
switch to another branch "branch-cheese", which somewhere will have a common 
ancestor. Below is the only method I've managed to make work. There has *got* 
to be a better way:

$ cd ..
$ rm -rf project
$ tla get project--branch-cheese project
$ cd project
$ rebuilt Makefiles and other temporary files from scratch.

Please help.... I'll then add then answers to the Wiki, so the next user will 
be able to find this info. 

Thanks.

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regards, Esben

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