[cvsnt] Re: Determine What files have changed on a branch

[Oliver Giesen]

Matt Schuckmann wrote:

> 1. There is a --brief option for the diff command that gives a small
> amount of information on the differing files, i.e. Repository file
> name, revisions and some useless text about some temporary files.

Yes, the mentioning of temp files has definitely degraded the
usefulness of the command. It wasn't always this way.


> It doesn't appear that this option is in the documentation but I
> could have missed it, it's definatly not documented in the online
> help.  Also it appears that this option doesn't work for the rdiff
> command which is too bad, perhaps this is a known bug.

I'm pretty sure this used to work at some point.


 
> 2. Apparently in the past CVS users have been advised to apply a both
> a branch point tag and a branch tag whenever a branch is made, just to
> facilitate this type of operation.
> Is this still the case?
> If so that's disappointing considering all the wonderful work that
> has been done with mergepoints it seems that identifying the branch
> point would be extreamly simple.
> 
> Is there a reason why CVSNT can't identify the branch point for you?

While we're at it, here's my feature suggestion:
Introduce some kind of shorthand notation for referring to
branchpoints, something like

cvs up -r\branch  

i.e. use a backslash or whatever other character seems sensible here as
prefix to the branch name.

Cheers,

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Oliver
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