From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `smoothing_enabled' undeclared
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:27:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy7v68j95.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bqs7shtn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:33:24 +0900")
>> > Every branch has a "head". The main branch is called "the trunk".
>> HEAD is a tag. Is it a tag for the head of the trunk or the head of the
>> branch which the working directory is in?
It's the head of the current branch.
> The CVS docs are maddeningly vague about this...
At best,y es.
> I thought it was the latter, but I just did a bit of testing, and the
> result of using -rHEAD is different depending on which command you use.
All cases where HEAD refers to the trunk are either historical or just
plain bugs.
> * "cvs update -rHEAD src/xfaces.c" _changes_ the sticky tag from the
> file to be "HEAD", and updates it to be the latest revision on _the
> trunk_.
And it puts the src/xfaces.c file in a state that CVS itself doesn't
understand: i.e. it's a bug. Same thing with any other pseudo-tag
like BASE.
> [I suppose the reason it is this way is that they simply didn't
> special-case HEAD in places where they really should have, so the result
> is probably internally consistent but confusing for users...]
That's about right, although a bit too generous.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-23 3:20 `smoothing_enabled' undeclared Herbert Euler
2006-06-23 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-24 2:16 ` Herbert Euler
2006-06-24 2:38 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-02 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-02 22:51 ` Nick Roberts
2006-07-02 23:33 ` Miles Bader
2006-07-03 15:40 ` Bob Rogers
2006-07-06 22:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-06-24 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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