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Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Frank Hemer wrote:
>
> |> a revision on BRANCH's parent. This makes sense when speaking
> |> about individual files, but use of .origin with multiple files
> |> probably deserves some sort of warning to the user that what they
> |> asked for may not make sense.
> |
> |
> | Well, as stated before: All relative tags are _only_ valid for
> | individual files, not for directories. It doesn't matter where the
> | relative tag appears in a combined tag.
> |
> | If applied on a directory, a warning will be shown complaining
> | about an invalid tag. And cvs aborts.
>
>
> Hrm. The real strength of the .root tag, at least, is that it makes
> `cvs diff -rBRANCH.root -rBRANCH' possible. I would hate to go to all
> this trouble and not get this feature. It's just plain not very
> useful otherwise. The same tag specs could be useful in a merge.
I agree. I would really like a way to replace the idioms
cvs tag foo-bp
cvs tag -b foo-branch
cvs up -r foo-branch
.....lots of changes and commits....
cvs diff -rfoo-bp -rfoo-branch
with something like:
cvs tag -b foo-branch
cvs up -r foo-branch
.....lots of changes and commits....
cvs diff -rfoo-branch.root -rfoo-branch
so that we don't need lots of foo-bp tags in the tree.
The possibility of doing something like this:
cvs tag -b -rfoo-branch.root foo-redeux-branch
to allow the creation of an alternative implementation of modified code
based on the same original baseline version as foo-branch would also be
interesting.
> And there is the similar matter of `cvs diff -r.commitid.XXX.prev
> -r.commitid.XXX'. I thought this sort of request was what got you
> started on this?
Yes, it would be highly desirable to be able to do
cvs udpate -j.commitid.XXX -j.commitid.XXX.prev
to reverse a particular patch.
-- Mark
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