Re: CVS branches

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:

>   And I have a case when I forgot to add a regular tag at the start of a
> branch.  So now I'm finding it very hard to obtain a diff of all changes
> since I started the branch.  I'll have to do it manually, file by file,
> looking at revision numbers :-/

You can still add such a tag.  Just figure out the date you made
the branch (that you can do I suppose, there's no reason you
cannot), do cvs co -D the-date, and cvs tag.

>   CVS branches are hard, you have to admit it ;-)

Right.  And Carl Worth wrote to tell us how easy it is in git:

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-February/006255.html

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