Regarding 'HEAD', and it not matching '-r 1' when the version number has been
increased, what about '-r 9 -f'?
Ok, answer (just tried it): It wants to treat '-r 9' as sticky, and complains when it
isn't found on commit.
> Since anyone can always refer to the trunk by a very simple and
> easy-to-remember number (i.e. "1"), the other option (i.e. of removing
> the feature from "cvs diff") seems very wasteful to me.
>
> > If somebody is interested, I can try to make a version of my patch that
> > makes HEAD work as it does for "cvs diff" in all the other cases. I don't
> > think it's very hard. (Hardest part will probably be fixing sanity.sh...)
>
> I'd be interested but don't bother to do it just on my account alone --
> I'll be able to to the same when I get some free time too....
Not all of us have the tools to recompile on every platform that we use.
I can't even apply patches on my win32 platform.
If this is really a good idea (and I'm thinking more and more it is), then what does
it take to get this into the main release? If you're worried about breaking stuff
that needs the current behavior, how about '%NHEAD' or something? (NewHead).
Michael
