Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.
Oliver Giesen wrote: > Aaaaargh! I do NOT lose any history. All the revisions are there on the > vendor branch where I want them. I wouldn't be doing it if I were losing my > history everytime! > Of course you do... If you been eg. 50 revisions to the file then you import the 'new' tree, then those 50 revisions are compressed into a single one when you reapply them - that's a loss of history (although the history is still technically available, it's not useful as it only refers to the old version). > >> A proper baseline would allow you to change the >>sources your changes were based on without losing any history up to >>that point. > > > I still don't get what you're talking about I'm afraid... > Baseline support means that a sandbox/repository has two sources - your working changes and a reference source (which may be another CVS repository or just a regular set of updates from a vendor). You can the update the baseline without changing your changes - especially useful if the baseline is a CVS repository as you can track seamlessly between the two sets & see all the changes/comments. Ideally you can then push your changes back upstream including all the history/comments... All of this is future work though (and not particularly high priority as there's other preparatory work to do first). Tony