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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 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 95 18:41:00 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:47:45 -0700
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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