Using private branches in CVS?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:23:38 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We'd like to start preparing updating vdr to 1.6.x.  It's not 100% clear if 
> this will be feasible for F9, so I think it'd be good to work on a private 
> branch in CVS and keep devel at 1.4.x until it's clear that the update will 
> happen, and then merge to the devel branch.
> 
> Are there any instructions how to set up and work on private branches like 
> this the right way?  I'm trying to search Wiki for instructions but didn't 
> find anything relevant using the title search and the full text search gives 
> me "500 internal server error"s.

For Audacity I simply branched HEAD to "audacity-1_3_3-test" (and later
"audacity-1_3_4-test"). In the working-copy of the branch I then used
"make tag && make build" as usual [for scratch-builds].