Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:47:45 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig Message-ID: <199509150147.SAA00186@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 95 18:41:00 PDT." <199509150141.SAA08604@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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>> >> >I think you are the one confused here, there is no cvs branch called >> >``main branch''. cvs commands using -rHEAD are with respect to what most >> >folks call the main branch, correct terminolgy is the HEAD branch. >> >> 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). > >Try again.. and to prove your self wrong try these commands: > >cvs co -rRELENG_2_1_0 pstat >cd pstat >cvs update -rHEAD >cvs status pstat.c Well, then the behavior isn't consistent. Instead of doing the update, instead do the following: vi pstat.c (and make some stupid but identifiable change) cvs diff -c -rHEAD pstat.c The differences you see will be relative to the head of the RELENG_2_1_0 branch, NOT the head of the "main" branch. -DG
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