"Cameron, Steve" wrote:
> Derek Price wrote:
> > compound of a static tag and ".origin". I think it would be easy for a
> > user to
> > expect that statictag.origin would return the origin of the branch that
> > the
> > static tag is on (it doesn't - it's returnning empty...).
> [smc] That isn't possible, I don't think (famous last words...).
>
> Here's why: the same revision marked by the static tag might be
> present on multiple branches, due to CVS's optimization of not
No, no, no. I totally agree. I meant that it would be easy for a novice user
to _expect_ that behavior, so if they attempt to retrieve statictag.origin they
should get an error message and not an empty revision.
Derek
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