El Sáb 20 Oct 2001 19:16, Leif Delgass escribió:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Manuel Teira wrote:
> > OK. Mine is 'mteira'. So we need to tag a new branch from the trunk:
> >
> > cvs rtag -b mach64-0-0-2-branch
> >
> > Checkout it again:
> >
> > cvs co -b mach64-0-0-2-branch
> >
> > Apply our patch over this checkouted branch.
> >
> > patch -p0 < here-the-patch-name
> >
> > And finally, update the branch with this code:
> >
> > cvs update -r mach64-0-0-2-branch
>
> The update command fetches changes from the repository so that you can
> merge in changes from other developers before checking in your working
> tree.  In this case the -r option sets the sticky tag with the branch tag
> (this can be verified with 'cvs status [filename]').  That means that
> subsequent commands will operate on the branch specified.  To commit the
> patch to the branch, you need to check it in:
>
> cvs commit -m 'Log message goes here'
>
> I'm pretty sure (can someone verify this?) that after the first update
> with the branch tag specified, you can omit it thereafter since the sticky
> tag will apply.  So from this point you just:
>
> 1.  Make changes in your working tree
> 2.  When you're ready to commit, first run "cvs update", test any merged
> changes from other developers and then "cvs commit -m 'log message'" (if
> you omit the log message cvs will open the editor specified in the EDITOR
> environment var).  If you forget to update first, commit will notify you
> if there is a new revision in the repository, but it's up to you to then
> run update and merge the changes.
>
> Then periodically, we'll need to merge changes from the trunk into our
> branch (which is described in the cvs policies doc).
>
OK. Thank you for the clear explanation. Now I think I'm ready to put the new
branch in the repository. I'm waiting for the access, guys. As soon as I have
access (if i'ts not too late here in Spain) I will proceed.

Best regards.

--
Manuel Teira

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