From kde-devel Thu May 27 06:29:51 1999 From: David Faure Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 06:29:51 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: HELP! cvs server: sticky tag `HEAD' for file `pipes.cpp' is not a branch X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92778609512459 On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 01:28:03AM +0200, Harri Porten wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 1999, David Faure wrote: > > > On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 12:45:17AM +0200, Lars Doelle wrote: > > > > > > David, this works. I was using -r HEAD. Does this > > > mean that the HEAD branch is dead and i should > > dead ? who said dead ? > > The HEAD branch is the default one in a CVS repository. > > (when there is no branching at all). > > > > It's just that "-r HEAD" is a twisted way of asking for the latest stuff. > > -A does it properly. > > -r is for branches... > > An example of "-r HEAD" usage: "cvs diff -r HEAD" gives you the between > your local data and the CURRENT CVS, i.e. in case someone edited the CVS > sources while you have been hacking at home as well. cvs diff thefile.cc does it as well, FWIW. -- David FAURE david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today