Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:51:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig Message-ID: <199509151951.MAA00316@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <7669.811139417@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 14, 95 09:30:17 pm
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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. 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
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