I use tkCVS since I'm on a Unix machine (HPUX). tkCVS showing that branchY is not off branchX (because of the explanation folks here provided) is what started all this discussion for me.
So in WinCVS, if you create a branch off a trunk, e.g., branchX, and then create branchY off branchX BEFORE submitting code into branchX, does it show this picture... +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | 1.1 |----| 1.2 |----| 1.3 |---- ... +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | branchX | branchY ...or this picture? branchX | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | 1.1 |----| 1.2 |----| 1.3 |---- ... +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | branchY Even though they're equivalent (see, I understand now!) I prefer the first picture. -chris -----Original Message----- From: Carucci, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:59 AM To: Fouts Christopher (); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Branching bug ??? (was Re: Bug is tagging the head of a branch head???) WinCVS has a Graph feature that will paint this exact picture for them. It's a great tool that I use all the time. http://www.wincvs.org/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Branching bug ??? (was Re: Bug is tagging the head of a branch head???) "A picture paints a thousand words" (David Gates of Bread) Because of my CVS experience, AND the help from you folks, I understand now WHY CVS does its branching. But I have to explain this to my users, and some of them are a lot less experienced than I am with the tool. So when they're looking at a GUI tool like tkCVS and don't see "physially" see that branchY does branch from branchX like I told them it does, it's hard for me to explain say "Well it does!" Some of these folks are from Missouri so they say "Show me!" and a picture would be the perfect answer to this, regardless of version numbers. -chris -----Original Message----- From: Larry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:57 PM To: Fouts Christopher () Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Branching bug ??? (was Re: Bug is tagging the head of a branch head???) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It's just when I branch I want to see the "physical" branch, > regardless where it's coming from. Why? The process you describe will work just fine with CVS. In fact, it's a fairly popular process. Just ignore the actual revision numbers (which you should be doing anyway) and everything will be fine. -Larry Jones Wheeee. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs