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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:38:33 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 21:30:17 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>    That is NOT correct. cvs operations refering to -rHEAD refer to the most
> recent version of the relevant branch. It only refers to the most recent
> version of the "main" branch when that is the branch it was checked out from
> (or in other words has no sticky tag).

But that doesn't make sense.

To wit:

	cvs co -P -rRELENG_2_1_0 foomod
	cd foomod
	cvs update -jHEAD

Will merge in the changes for *2.2* to foomod, not the "head" of the
RELENG_2_1_0 branch, which is indeed sticky unless I'm grossly
incorrect about how Rod put the tags down.

					Jordan