From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `smoothing_enabled' undeclared Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:27:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17564.42388.601943.326474@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wtawugw9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <17576.19960.559626.543027@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87bqs7shtn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152224897 19345 80.91.229.2 (6 Jul 2006 22:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 07 00:28:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FycKP-000180-9j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:28:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FycKO-00073U-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FycKA-000728-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FycK7-00071k-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FycK7-00071h-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:27:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.97] (helo=tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FycKM-00035Y-Tr; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([70.55.80.219]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060706222748.LZDU24981.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E1D838CDE; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <87bqs7shtn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:33:24 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56671 Archived-At: >> > 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