RE: Official sources vs. RCVS

[Cameron, Steve]

Derek Price wrote:
> "Cameron, Steve" wrote:
        [...]
> >         Here's why: the same revision marked by the static tag might be
> >         present on multiple branches, due to CVS's optimization of not
> 
> No, no, no.  I totally agree.  I meant that it would be easy for a novice
> user
> to _expect_ that behavior,    [...]
> 
        Oh.  But changing that would mean doing the wrong thing in the
        (pathological) case of a tag which is in some instances a branch
        tag and some instances a non-branch tag.  Maybe that's ok, but
        I'm kind of leaning toward having it do the right thing in that
case:
        scameron@fire 269 $ cvs status
        cvs status: Examining .
        ===================================================================
        File: bar               Status: Locally Modified

           Working revision:    1.1     Wed Jan 31 20:00:29 2001
           Repository revision: 1.1     /u1/scameron/xyz/zzz/aaa/bar,v
           Sticky Tag:          pathological_tag (revision: 1.1)
           Sticky Date:         (none)
           Sticky Options:      (none)

        ===================================================================
        File: foo               Status: Up-to-date

           Working revision:    1.1     Wed Jan 31 19:59:08 2001
           Repository revision: 1.1     /u1/scameron/xyz/zzz/aaa/foo,v
           Sticky Tag:          pathological_tag (branch: 1.1.2)
           Sticky Date:         (none)
           Sticky Options:      (none)

        scameron@fire 270 $ cvs update -r pathological_tag.origin
        cvs update: Updating .
        cvs update: conflict: bar is modified but no longer in the
repository
        C bar
        scameron@fire 271 $