Re: cvs log -r branch

[Kaz Kylheku]

lawrence.jones@eds.com (Larry Jones) wrote in message 
news:<mailman.2317.1046101377.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org>...
> Paul Edwards writes:
> > 
> > Is it deliberate behaviour that you have to go
> > 
> > cvs log -rbranch file.c
> > 
> > rather than
> > 
> > cvs log -r branch file.c
> 
> Yes.  See the description of the -r flag in:
> 
>       <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC143>

This documentation would be ever so slightly better if it said ``there
can be no separation between the -r option and its argument.'' rather
than ``there can be no space ...''.

Because there *is* no space in -r tag, only in the shell command
notation, which stands for two argument strings, "-r" and "tag". The
issue is that CVS wants these to be catenated.