[drupal-devel] CVS question: Multiple branch tags on a module

[eric Farris]

On Apr 12, 2005 4:45 PM, Syscrusher <scott at 4th.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 April 2005 15:46, Jim Riggs wrote:
> > You will never tag again.  You only tag files once.  Keep a copy  
> > checked out for the versions on which you are working:
> >
> > cvs co -d hof-HEAD contributions/modules/hof
> > cvs co -d hof-4.6 -r DRUPAL-4-6 contributions/modules/hof
> > cvs co -d hof-4.5 -r DRUPAL-4-5 contributions/modules/hof
> >
> > Make changes as needed to each version.  When you check in, the  
> > checkin will happen on that branch:
> >
> > cd hof-4.6
> > [make changes]
> > cvs ci -m '4.6 changes' hof.module # changes made on 4.6 branch
> 
> I thought this is what got me in trouble before -- trying to commit changes to
> a tagged branch. What is different here than what I did yesterday that got me
> messed up?
> 

I found jchaffer's "Drupal Contrib Branches Made Simple" to a very
nice quick guide to this. Works for me:
http://lists.drupal.org/archives/drupal-devel/2005-04/msg00260.html

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