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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues |
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Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:09:42 +0200 |
* Tom Lord:
> What is a "HEAD branch"?
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> People often use the string "HEAD" to name the latest revision in a
> given line of development (i.e., a "version" in arch).
Yeah, but only that you can't be sure that you've got the right
version with all that archive cycling. *gd&r*
> I've never heard of a "HEAD branch", though.
It's used by the FreeBSD folks, apprently. After all, it's just a CVS
implementation detail that HEAD is not a branch. 8-)