Re: branch tags

[David Taylor]

Matthew Herrmann wrote:

> Hi Derek,
>
> Following your suggestion to look at logs to work out why I was getting
> extra log messages, I did a file by file check.
>
> I think I've uncovered a bizarre behaviour in cvs regarding newly created
> files.
>
> Here's the command I used.
>
> cvs log -rROT_4_4_1_G:ROT_4_4_1_L
>

<snip>


>
> ============================================================================
>
> This one hasn't yet had any tags since it's a new file on the dev branch.
> Using the above cvs log command, I get every version instead of no versions
> which i'd expect:

Check http://www.cvshome.org/docs/infooutput.html
Both links there (from 1997 and 1999) contain gory details on just how broken
'cvs log -rV1:V2'
really is.

dtayl