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| <H1>Branching</H1> |
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| <P>Creating a branch and releasing resources to that branch is useful in cases |
| where you are not yet ready to put your changes in the main development flow. |
| It is also useful for creating incremental patches to existing versions. |
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| <P>To create a branch: |
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| <li>From the context menu of the project, select <b>Team > Branch</b>. |
| <p><img src="../images/cvs_new_branch.png" alt="Create a new CVS Branch dialog" border="0"> |
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| <li>Enter the Branch Name for the new branch in the text area.</li> |
| <li>A default version tag name will be proposed by the dialog. If you do not like the suggested name, you can change |
| it in the text area.</li> |
| <li>If you would like to start working in the branch immediately, make sure |
| the checkbox is selected.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>OK</b>.</li> |
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| <p><em>Note:</em> The Version Name is important; you will need this when you want |
| to merge your changes later on. It identifies the point at which the branch |
| was created. |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-26.htm">Team programming with CVS</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-27b.htm">Branches</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-30.htm">Synchronizing with a CVS repository</a> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="tasks-115.htm">Synchronizing with the repository</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-100b.htm">Merging from a branch</a> |
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| <a href="../reference/ref-47.htm">CVS</a> |
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