RE: Proposed new aliases, like HEAD

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, March 24, 2000 at 08:42:38 (-0600), Cameron, Steve wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Proposed new aliases, like HEAD
>
>       [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.

That's just an implementation detail.  If every branch was created by
first adding an empty delta to the root of the branch then the 'short
patch' feature, assuming that "branch2" was derived from "branch1",
would simply look for a second delta on the "branch2" and only test for
actual differences if there were at least a second delta.

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                                                        Greg A. Woods

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