Re: What exactly is HEAD anyway?

[Jim Hyslop]

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> The more I look into CVS the less I understand. Perhaps you can help me...
>
> When using -r HEAD I do not seem to get the latest revision on the trunk:

As you've found, 'HEAD' means the latest revision on the trunk for all 
commands except 'diff', where it means the latest revision of the branch 
that is checked out. I don't know how this inconsistency came about, but 
for backwards compatibility it's not likely to get fixed. Instead, the 
feature branch (CVS 1.12.x) has added new special purpose tags so that 
you can always specify the tip of the trunk, the tip of a branch, the 
base of a branch, and so on.

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Jim