Re: HEADS UP: CVS changes

From: 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

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