Re: Official sources vs. RCVS

[Derek R. Price]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:

> "Cameron, Steve" wrote:
>
> > Derek Price wrote:
> > > "Cameron, Steve" wrote:
> >         [...]
> > > >         Here's why: the same revision marked by the static tag might be
> > > >         present on multiple branches, due to CVS's optimization of not
> > >
> > > No, no, no.  I totally agree.  I meant that it would be easy for a novice
> > > user
> > > to _expect_ that behavior,    [...]
> > >
> >         Oh.  But changing that would mean doing the wrong thing in the
> >         (pathological) case of a tag which is in some instances a branch
> >         tag and some instances a non-branch tag.  Maybe that's ok, but
>
> Hmm.  Good point.  Yuck.

Hey.  Wait a second.  CVS is outputting the, "cvs update: foo is no longer in 
the
repository", warning on a case by case basis.  It should at least give a 
specific
warning when .origin is applied to a sticky tag even if it returns an empty
revision.  At least the user will have some idea that pathological tags are
lurking about.

Derek

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