Re: How to diff branch sandbox against tip of trunk?

[Frank Hemer]

On Friday 09 November 2007 03:18:55 Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> Larry Jones <address@hidden> writes:
> > Someone (whose name escapes me at the moment and I'm too lazy
> > to go look it up) was working on a patch to add magic tags for things
> > like the trunk and branch roots, but it never quite got finished.  I'm
> > not sure what the current status is.
>
> You are probably thinking of the patches that
> Frank Hemmer <address@hidden> submitted.
>
> See also
>
>   https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?4443
>   https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?4809
>
> I don't recall how far away that code was from
> being able to be used, but it was a newtags2
> branch in the CVS repository.

Yep, that was me.
I have sent one more patch that fixed some issues with the newtags2 branch - 
for unknown reasons it never got applied but still must be around somewhere 
in the mail archive.
I felt it was usable - I'm working with that version since ...

Frank