>    And for those of us who use our own cvs tree to track the sources, I'm
>    currently working on modifications to cvs to allow it to sanely handle
>    branches in a vendor source being tracked via import (e.g. allowing imports
>    and local modifications on both branches...)

> i fail to understand the point of this.  CVS handles branches on
> branches OK.  branches can come off any revision.  CVS just handles
> the `1.1.1' branch specially when doing `cvs import'.

The point being I'd like to branch off of those sources found in the 1.1.1
branch, and then import both into the 1.1.1 branch itself (e.g. "current")
_and_ into the new subbranch (e.g. "release-1.x"), and also keep local
changes to files on both branches.  Among other things, right now cvs
cannot import onto a branch that has more than two dots.  Trust me, I
spent quite a while digging around trying to find a decent way to handle
this without adding new code...

jdarrow

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John Darrow
Computing Services, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu