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Re: why does HEAD behave as a tag rather than as a branch?
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Mark D. Baushke |
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Re: why does HEAD behave as a tag rather than as a branch? |
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Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:58:57 -0800 |
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Tyler <address@hidden> writes:
> It is confusing to the users that they can't just do cvs up -r $BRANCH
> all the time. It also forces a lot of scripts into clumsy workarounds
> (if $tag == "" then $tag == "HEAD").
>
> Is there a way to "fix" this?
You could use tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="" or tag="-r$BRANCH" vs tag="-A"
In the longer term, it might be desirable to move to the ".trunk +
.origin" patch...
http://web.archive.org/web/20011004170734/http://www.geocities.com/dotslashstar/branch_patch.html
as referenced here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-09/msg00639.html
Sadly, I have not been able to find this patch and I don't have time to
write it myself.
-- Mark
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