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Arthur Barrett wrote:
> Aaron,
> 
> 
>>In essence, I want CVS to allow the client 
>>to connect to what they think is the trunk 
>>but instead get the specified branch. 
> 
> 
> Why?
[...]
> At a more practical level, if you did this and the user started to
> create reports on the repository for changes to "all branches" they'd
> get awfully confused when they saw all their changes appearing on
> another branch not the trunk.

Aaron, consider also the headaches and major confusion that will arise
when these users start talking to other users about "the trunk" - which
trunk do they mean, the real trunk, or the trunk they see? Sounds like a
recipe for disaster to me.

- --
Jim Hyslop
Dreampossible: Better software. Simply.     http://www.dreampossible.ca
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