[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/22/2000 05:44:39 PM
>Noel Yap wrote:
>
> [smc] [...]
>> > I think (maybe) you just want
>> > to use "RCS_branch_head()" instead
>> > of "RCS_head()" in the code for "cvs up -C" similar
>> > to what "cvs diff" does in the HEAD case.
>>
>> Yes, you're right. I wasn't really aware of this meaning of HEAD since I
>> don't
>> really use it and I haven't used branches in a while. As a request, maybe
>> CVS
>> should support syntax like "-r 1.2.HEAD" and "-r 1.2.BASE"?
> [smc] I don't use HEAD much either, since I work almost exclusively
>on
> branches, so don't put that in there on my account.
>
> And anyway, why -r "1.2.HEAD?" if you're meaning the head revision
>of the
> branch, the branch tag should suffice, right?
Yeah, this is true. I guess the above is useless then.
> I'm not sure what "-r 1.2 BASE" would mean I didn't know what "base
>rev"
> meant in your earlier post, so I didn't reply to that part...So what
>does "base rev"
> mean to you?
The base revision is the revision within the working directory (minus any
modifications of course). It is the revision that is reported as the "Working
revision:" by "cvs stat". I thought I saw a discussion about this some time
back (maybe a year or so ago).
Noel
