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RE: Branches in CVS repository?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of DJ Delorie
> Sent: 17 January 2005 17:50

> All I'm saying is that people who wish to be sensible need to
> understand that whatever branch name they choose will cause a branch
> to exist in ALL the src projects if they include common subdirectories
> like libiberty.  They need to either plan to take advantage of this,
> or plan to avoid the namespace collision issues.


  Specify that the branch tag must include the name of the project (or CVS
module, to be precise) for which the branch is intended.

<cvsmodule>-<org>-<name>

So you could have "binutils-dj-foo" and "gdb-dj-foo" and no conflict.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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