Derek R. Price wrote:
>
>Just my 2 cents:
>
>If anybody does go through with implementing this stuff, branch
"functions"
>(I believe somebody else already mentioned this in passing) seem to
make more
>sense to me than more magic tags.
>
>Rather than a bunch of new magic tags, excepting perhaps '.trunk',
allow
>magic functions such as, '.parent', '.tail', and '.head' to be
appended to
>branch tags. Allow multiple concatenations, of course, for
constructs like,
>'current_branch.parent.parent.tail' and 'current_branch.parent.head'
and
>'.trunk.head'. Also, assume an empty tag is the current branch (
'.parent'
>would be equivalent to 'current_branch.parent').
I like this solution. I don't like the fact that you currently have
to tag a branch twice if you ever want to back it out. With this
mechanism, all you would have to do is:
cvs update -j branch -j branch.tail
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