Re: CVS branches info

[Jens Finke <jens eknif de>]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> Jens Finke wrote:
> > In the appropriate module do:
> >
> >   cvs status -v configure.in
> >
> > This lists all existing tags and branches for this module. But AFAIK it
> > lacks a description of every branch.
>
> How about maintaining a file BRANCHES at root level ? Same as NEWS,
> ChangeLog etc, which has info about branches ?
> (name, description, date of creation, maybe creator too)

Would be difficult, 'cos it results in different files for each branch. If
you create a new branch, you must traverse to all exisiting branches and
add the new one manually to the BRANCHES file. This isn't very practical
I suppose.

   Jens