Re: why does HEAD behave as a tag rather than as a branch?

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Tyler <address@hidden> writes:

> It is confusing to the users that they can't just do cvs up -r $BRANCH
> all the time. It also forces a lot of scripts into clumsy workarounds
> (if $tag == "" then $tag == "HEAD").
> 
> Is there a way to "fix" this?

You could use tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="" or tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="-A"

In the longer term, it might be desirable to move to the ".trunk +
.origin" patch...


http://web.archive.org/web/20011004170734/http://www.geocities.com/dotslashstar/branch_patch.html

as referenced here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-09/msg00639.html

Sadly, I have not been able to find this patch and I don't have time to
write it myself.

        -- Mark
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