Re: feature request: pseudo-tag for accessing the trunk

[Derek Robert Price]

Cameron, Steve wrote:

> > * Larry Jones <lawrence.jones@eds.com> [2003-03-18 21:18]:
> >    
> >
> > > Steve Cameron has a patch that does that (although he spells it ".trunk"
> > > rather than "TRUNK"):
> > >      
> > Now that we have different branches for development and release,
> > do you see any chance that this will be committed to the dev
> > branch anytime soon?
> >
> > Kind regards
> >   Ingolf
> >    
>
> I haven't worked on that patch in a long time, unfortunately.
> (no internet access at home anymore, which I admit
> is somewhat ridiculous.)
>
> There is a problem with the ".origin" feature and 
> vendor branches (it doesn't work on vendor branches.)
> I don't recall the exact details, or know how hard
> it would be to fix it to work on vendor branches.
>
> Also unfortunate, I combined the two features,
> ".trunk" and ".origin" into one patch, because
> it was too hard to keep them separate.
>  

I'd certainly consider committing this to the dev branch if the patch 
was ported forward and the problems were fixed.  I don't have time to do 
the work myself however.  My wife isn't about to let me spend much more 
time on unpaid work until we know we can make our mortgage payments for 
the foreseeable future.  Of course you could contract the work through 
my company.  :)

Derek

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