Branches without a magic branch number

[Jon Smirl]

When working on the giant (3GB) Mozilla CVS repository I am
encountering thousand of branches that don't have a magic branch
label. Why is the magic branch number missing?

For example, there should a branch label 1.36.2 but there is none.
1.36.2 obviously exists since 1.36.2.2.2 was branched from it.

address@hidden mozilla]$ cvs stat -v Makefile.in | grep 36
       SeaMonkey_M8_BRANCH             (branch: 1.36.4)
       SeaMonkey_M8_BASE               (revision: 1.36)
       AUTOCONF_NSPR_WIN32_XCOMPILE_19990621_BRANCH    (branch: 1.36.2.2.2)

> From the ,v file. You can see that 1.36.2.1 has been created but there
is no 1.36.0.2 magic branch tag. Everything is fine with the 1.34.4
branch. The BASE tag for 1.36.2.2.2 is also missing on 1.36.2.

       SeaMonkey_M8_BRANCH:1.36.0.4
       SeaMonkey_M8_BASE:1.36
       AUTOCONF_NSPR_WIN32_XCOMPILE_19990621_BRANCH:1.36.2.2.0.2

1.36
date    99.06.21.00.26.16;      author mcafee%netscape.com;     state Exp;
branches
       1.36.2.1;
next    1.35;

1.36.2.1
date    99.07.23.16.08.19;      author cls%seawood.org; state Exp;
branches;
next    1.36.2.2;

1.36.2.2
date    99.08.15.20.58.40;      author cls%seawood.org; state Exp;
branches
       1.36.2.2.2.1;
next    ;

1.36.2.2.2.1
date    99.08.20.15.59.59;      author cls%seawood.org; state Exp;
branches;

--
1.36
log
@Better ifdef logic for NECKO.
--
1.36.2.1
log
@Added cross-compiling support variables.
--
1.36.2.2
log
@More changes for cross-compiling support.
--
1.36.2.2.2.1
log
@Merged with HEAD from 8/18 or so.


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Jon Smirl
address@hidden