Working with Branches

Once your working copy is updated to a branch, just use CVS as you normally would.

Only difference you will see is that revision numbers are 4 sets of digits instead of two. (Branch from revision 1.4 yields branch revisions of 1.4.2.1) Example:

$ cvs status hello.py
===================================================================
File: hello.py         	Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:	1.4.2.1	Tue Jun 12 14:30:36 2001
   Repository revision:	1.4.2.1	/home/cvsroot/hello/hello.py,v
   Sticky Tag:		Release-1-0-branch (branch: 1.4.2)
   Sticky Date:		(none)
   Sticky Options:	(none)

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You can switch between branch and main trunk simply by using the update command on your working copy.