Re: Abandoning head for branch?

[KEVIN ZEMBOWER]

Thanks, Aaron, that's almost exactly what I wanted to do, and exactly what I 
described. However, is there anyway to do this while still keeping r1.3, for 
historical purposes?

Thanks, again, for your help.

-Kevin

>>> "Aaron S. Hawley" <address@hidden> 09/12/03 02:33PM >>>
rcs -o1.3 file

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:

> There must be a way to do this, but I can't figure it out.
>
> I have a file I've modified and checked in, up to version 1.3. I want to 
> abandon r1.3, checkout r1.2, make changes to it and check it back in as r2.0 
> and have it treated as the default head version from then on. How can I do 
> this?
>
> Ashwin Patil asked almost this exact question in the archives at 
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-rcs/2002-06/msg00012.html, but I 
> couldn't find an answer to his question posted.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -Kevin Zembower