Re: HEADS UP: CVS changes
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:51:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: HEADS UP: CVS changes | ||
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> Well, for once, you can't use -A, which is quite annoying to begin
> with. In addition, various versions of CVS don't handle multiple sticky
> tags too well - so if you'd like to say, update to a certain date in the
> branch - it won't work (you can have just one sticky tag - either date or
> branch). It appears to be fixed in the most recent versions of CVS but I
> bumped into it in many real-world systems. In general, the implementation
> of branches in CVS is very simplistic and suboptimal, and forcing people
to
> always work with branches is not a good thing.
I agree that we should have a HEAD branch. In this case PHP5 should be it.
The reason is that I have also experienced problems when working with
branches, namely trying to extract FD patch, after it was reverted. I could
not specify two dates and a branch. Two dates alone work fine.
Edin