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Re: Renaming a branch
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Larry Jones |
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Re: Renaming a branch |
Date: |
Wed, 4 May 2005 17:11:05 -0400 (EDT) |
David Leskovac writes:
>
> Okay. So rather than the 2-step process I mentioned in my original post
> where I would create a new branch from the original branch & then delete
> the original branch, there is a way to simply rename the existing branch
> with a "cvs admin -n" command? I looked at the syntax of "cvs admin" but
> it is not clear to me how this can be achieved. Would someone please provide
> an example?
You still need a 2-step process, you just use admin -n to create a new
name for the existing branch rather than using tag -b to create a new
branch:
cvs admin -n newname:oldname
cvs tag -d oldname
(Note that there's no "radmin" command so you need to have a checked out
working directory.)
-Larry Jones
Hmm... That might not be politic. -- Calvin