Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:48:10 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Holdover error in /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <CAF6rxgmUyn3gjw=E_u0guzU=hN9pH6emOU66r3AJ6e5Q0fRoyA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <61797.36801.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <BD.8C.08130.AC05DA25@cdptpa-oedge02> <20131215065233.GR3794@glenbarber.us> <20131215160216.GU3794@glenbarber.us> <172923.6929.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20131215235150.GF1446@glenbarber.us> <61797.36801.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> > It seems to me "SVNFLAGS?= -r HEAD" would switch stable/10 source tree to HEAD. Right or wrong? > >> Wrong. '-rHEAD' is the 'HEAD' *revision*, not branch. > >> Glen > > You mean HEAD here simply means the latest revision of whatever branch and not necessarily FreeBSD-current? > > Ambiguous use of HEAD, if that is the case, had me confused. Subversion has no real knowledge of a 'HEAD' or 'master' branch. To svn all branches are the same. In the url svn://.....freebsd.org/base/head 'head' is just an arbitrary label we happen to use. -rHEAD means the 'HEAD revision of whatever branch we happen to be on'.
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