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RE: Bug is tagging the head of a branch head???


From: Fouts Christopher ()
Subject: RE: Bug is tagging the head of a branch head???
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:30:17 -0400

Thanks to all!!!

-chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:52 AM
To: Fouts Christopher ()
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: Bug is tagging the head of a branch head???


"Fouts Christopher ()" writes:
> 
> If I want to tag the head of a newly created branch (with no work 
> committed to it yet), I just do a
> 
>       > cvs rtag -r b_dev_01_02 t_pre_dev_01_02_xx sample
> 
> correct?

Correct.

> Now when I do a checkout of the tagged files,
...
> and do a cvs status -v on one of the files, it shows the tag sticking 
> to the HEAD revision, NOT the branch head revision.

Also correct.

> Is this a bug???

No, it's an optimization.  CVS doesn't really create a branch in the RCS
file until you commit changes on the branch.  So, until you actually commit
changes on the branch, the head of the branch is the revision you branched
from.

-Larry Jones

Mom must've put my cape in the wrong drawer. -- Calvin




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