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

[Todd Denniston]

"Mark D. Baushke" wrote:
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> Tyler <address@hidden> writes:
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> > 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 $tag == "HEAD").
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> > Is there a way to "fix" this?
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> You could use tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="" or tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="-A"
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> In the longer term, it might be desirable to move to the ".trunk +
> .origin" patch...
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>http://web.archive.org/web/20011004170734/http://www.geocities.com/dotslashstar/branch_patch.html
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> as referenced here:
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>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-09/msg00639.html
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> Sadly, I have not been able to find this patch and I don't have time to
> write it myself.
I Located a copy of it (in my private archive of the CVS mailing list) at the
stage it was at 6-27-2000, but can only find a copy of it currently online in
google's cache (might want to grab it quick).

perhaps some google mining would turn up more, but unfortunately it was the
message after that where he started just indicating the kinds of changes and
that updates were 
"on http://www.geocities.com/dotslashstar/branch_patch.html";, so even my
private archive does not contain more.

".trunk" patch update 6-27-2000"
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:XHlGQc4yGhsJ:www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/382/2000/6/50/3949445/+Stephen.Cameron+05:56:00&hl=en

good luck

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) 
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter