Re: annotate ignoring sticky tags

[Noel Yap]

--- Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Noel Yap wrote:
> 
> > FYI, I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature,
> but
> > "cvs ann" is ignoring sticky tags.
> 
> I see what you mean; it behaves analogously to log,
> just
> working on the RCS file. It would make a certain
> amount
> of sense to pass in the sticky. If you are sticky at
> revision 1.5, or on a branch, you probably want
> annotate
> to dig backward starting from 1.5. On the other
> hand,
> what if you are sticky to something that is a moving
> target,
> i.e. a branch? Should annotate then start with the
> closest repository
> revision, or the latest?

My preference would be to use the latest since this
would be analogous to how checkout and update work.

Noel

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