Re: Feature request/ideas

[Derek Price]

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Mark D. Baushke wrote:

| Frank Hemer <frank@hemer.org> writes:
|
|> However I didn't have a better idea. Using .base instead can be
| similar
|> miss-interpreted since there is BASE. How about replacing '.root'
|> with '.tail', and replacing '.origin' with '.root'?
|
|
| Hmmm... I like replacing '.origin' with '.root' and I agree that
| .base is too confusing with BASE. I have a mild dislike of '.tail'
| even though it does have some symmetry with HEAD... (I keep
| thinking that 'tail file' gives me the latest bits appended to the
| file.)


Actually, I was waiting for Frank to finish his patch, but, when he
was done, I was going to insert .base as a synonym for BASE, and .head
as "the head of the current (possibly sticky) branch", and deprecate
HEAD and BASE to clear the namespace.  Then .trunk.head would be a
synonym for the old HEAD, BRANCH.head could be used to explicitly
specify the head of any branch, and .head would refer to the head of
the sticky branch in the current workspace.

| If you don't like '.first' (mentioned in a previous e-mail),
| perhaps '.branch' is a another alternative name that could be used
| as the first revision on the branch?


Actually, the revision specified by .tail is meaningless to CVS, as
Larry pointed out.  It had occurred to me that it was pretty
meaningless earlier, but on further consideration, it is totally
meaningless or worse than meaningless (in being potentially
misleading) once it is applied to multiple files.  There is no reason
to expect that the *.1 branch revision of one file was committed even
close to the same time as the *.1 revision of a second file, so such a
specification across multiple files could only confuse a user
expecting it to mean something.

Regards,

Derek
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