Re: BUG? "cvs ann" does not use sticky tag

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Noel Yap wrote:

> --- Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Using the sticky tag would be unsatisfactory in the
> > case that it's a
> > branch tag, because you would be annotating from the
> > branch tip.

[ snip ]

> I don't understand.
> 
> Currently (from what I'm seeing), "cvs ann" will
> annotate the head revision on the trunk, regardless of
> the working revision.

Right; we both agree that this is unsatisfactory.

> Unless our definitions of "Sticky Tag" differ, it
> sounds like we agree on what "cvs ann" /should/ do.

``Working revision'' and ``sticky tag'' are different.

There can be a sticky tag ``release_branch'', the working revision can
be 1.8.2.1, and there can be a new revision 1.8.2.2 in the repository.

I'd want cvs annotate to consider only 1.8.2.1 and its ancestors, but
if it were to use the sticky branch tag ``release_branch'' it would
include the new revision 1.8.2.2.

So in other words, I'd want it to ignore the sticky tag, and just use
the revision number 1.8.2.1 found in CVS/Entries.

In fact, is there a a reason why any operations other than
update, commit, add and remove should care about sticky tags?
Which ones?

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