From owner-cvs-etc Fri Sep 15 12:51:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-cvs-etc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA01101 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:51:58 -0700 Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA01072 ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:51:44 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00316; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:51:19 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199509151951.MAA00316@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <7669.811139417@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 14, 95 09:30:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 842 Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. That is exactly correct, and that is one of the intended purposes of the invisible ``HEAD'' tag. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD