Re: Tagging across branches?

2004-03-18 Thread Andy Jones
Thanks for the help, all. No, I wasn't planning on doing a checkout - I assumed that that would crash and burn somehow - just an export. Larry Jones wrote: >Just a terminology clarification -- everything in $CVSROOT is a single >repository. Its subdirectories are "top-level directories" (o

Re: Tagging across branches?

2004-03-17 Thread Larry Jones
Andy Jones writes: > > I have a repository - that is, a subdirectory of $CVSROOT - which has > a number of subdirectories. Just a terminology clarification -- everything in $CVSROOT is a single repository. Its subdirectories are "top-level directories" (or "modules" although, strictly speaking,

RE: Tagging across branches?

2004-03-17 Thread Conrad T. Pino
Hi Andy, > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim.Hyslop > > If they will be modifying the code, then your approach will not work. They > will have to check out the branch tag for the legacy branch. You > might want > to write a simple script or batch file that will check out the appropriate > d

RE: Tagging across branches?

2004-03-17 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Andy Jones wrote: > I have a repository - that is, a subdirectory of $CVSROOT - > which has a number of subdirectories. > > For one of these subdirectories I have created a branch, and > in my sandbox have checked out that branch. So in my sandbox > I have the main trunk except for one directo

Tagging across branches?

2004-03-17 Thread Andy Jones
Hi all, I have a repository - that is, a subdirectory of $CVSROOT - which has a number of subdirectories. For one of these subdirectories I have created a branch, and in my sandbox have checked out that branch. So in my sandbox I have the main trunk except for one directory, which is sticky o