Creating a Branch - Scenario #1

You want to create a branch from the current code base (to try out a new feature). Three step process:

Tag the existing code base prior to the branch so that you can go back to it if you need to:
```
$ cvs tag Release-2-1
cvs tag: Tagging .
T Makefile
T README
T hello.py
$
```

Use the cvs tag -b command to create a new branch:

$ cvs tag -b Release-2-1-branch
cvs tag: Tagging .
T Makefile
T README
T hello.py
$

Update your working copy to used the new branch:

$ cvs update -r Release-2-1-branch
cvs update: Updating .
$ cvs status hello.py
===================================================================
File: hello.py         	Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:	1.7	Tue Jun 12 13:36:09 2001
   Repository revision:	1.7	/home/cvsroot/hello/hello.py,v
   Sticky Tag:		Release-2-1-branch (branch: 1.7.2)
   Sticky Date:		(none)
   Sticky Options:	(none)

$