RE: Proposed new aliases, like HEAD

[Cameron, Steve]

         [...]
>  > Yes, CVS doesn't record a new version [on a new branch] if you don't  
        [ commit any change] . That's annoying. [...] 
> Well, you can determine full branching order for any branch creations the
> file
> was included in, due to the tags, so I'm not quite sure why not creating a
> new
> revision on a branch until you commit changes is a problem, but you're
> right
> about the rest of it.
        [smc]  Another advantage of doing things this 
        way is that you can do something like

        cvs rdiff -s -r branch1 -r branch2 everything

        and have some hope of seeing a list of files which 
        differ, tather than just a list of every file in the repository.

        -- steve