"Mark D. Baushke" wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It is confusing to the users that they can't just do cvs up -r $BRANCH > > all the time. It also forces a lot of scripts into clumsy workarounds > > (if $tag == "" then $tag == "HEAD"). > > > > Is there a way to "fix" this? > > You could use tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="" or tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="-A" > > In the longer term, it might be desirable to move to the ".trunk + > .origin" patch... > >http://web.archive.org/web/20011004170734/http://www.geocities.com/dotslashstar/branch_patch.html > > as referenced here: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-09/msg00639.html > > Sadly, I have not been able to find this patch and I don't have time to > write it myself. I Located a copy of it (in my private archive of the CVS mailing list) at the stage it was at 6-27-2000, but can only find a copy of it currently online in google's cache (might want to grab it quick).
perhaps some google mining would turn up more, but unfortunately it was the message after that where he started just indicating the kinds of changes and that updates were "on http://www.geocities.com/dotslashstar/branch_patch.html";, so even my private archive does not contain more. ".trunk" patch update 6-27-2000" http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:XHlGQc4yGhsJ:www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/382/2000/6/50/3949445/+Stephen.Cameron+05:56:00&hl=en good luck -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
