Re: Argh... cvs admin -b

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:59:58PM -0700, Josh Baudhuin wrote:
> Argh... whenever you check something into the main trunk, after having
> marked the default branch, the default branch setting in the archive
> file gets lost.
>
> Is this expected behavior? Is it a bug?

I don't believe CVS has ever been intended to cope with people
setting arbitrary default branches at the RCS level.  The
behaviour in this situation is presumably undefined (and thus the
specific behaviour you're seeing is neither expected, nor
unexpected, nor correct, nor a bug :-)

CVS itself uses the RCS default branch for exactly one thing,
"cvs import".  If you use it for anything else, you're on your
own.

The manual says (node "admin options"):
> There is one reason to run `cvs admin -b': to revert to the
> vendor's version when using vendor branches (*note Reverting
> local changes::).

Perhaps that should be strengthened to "...only one reason...".

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