Re: "branch" field in the admin section of RCS files... What's itfor?

[Derek R. Price]

"KOIE Hidetaka ($B8q9>1QN4(B)" wrote:

>   From:       "Russell Yanofsky" <rey4@columbia.edu>
>   Subject:    "branch" field in the admin section of RCS files... What..
>   Date:       Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:08:44 +0900
>   Message-Id: <PIEOLPFLHIPBOAPLEJDKGEAOCCAA.rey4@columbia.edu>
>
>   | which means the branch field is optional and can hold at most a single
>   | revision number. But if a the file has multiple branches, which branch
>   | number should be inserted there? What does it mean if one branch number is
>   | there as opposed to another one? Why is the field even neccessary at all?
>
>        admin     ::=  head       {num};
>                       { branch   {num}; }
>                       access     {id}*;
>                       symbols    {sym : num}*;
>                       locks      {id : num}*;  {strict  ;}
>                       { comment  {string}; }
>                       { expand   {string}; }
>                       { newphrase }*
>
> branches are recorded on "symbols" field.
> "branch" field specifies which branch is used when "-r" option is omitted.

http://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/doc/RCSFILES?rev=1.15&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

for more.

Derek

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