[cvsnt] HEAD revision tag unsupported for cvs log command?

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:35:32 -0200, Gerhard Fiedler
<lists at connectionbrazil.com> wrote:

>Tony Cleveland wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to use this to determine the revisions between a 
>> particular tag and the head
>> 
>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG::HEAD
>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG:::HEAD
>
>Yes, that seems to be broken. I see the same behavior here.
>
>Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2260
>(client/server)
>Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2151
>(client/server)
>
>
>Maybe you can reformulate this without using HEAD...
>
>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG::HEAD
>
>almost as cvs log -rSOME_TAG::
>
>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG:::HEAD
>
>as cvs log -rSOME_TAG::
>

I always thought that HEAD referred to the tip revision on TRUNK, so
HEAD is not usable to get to the tip on a branch. But the branch tag
itself should always refer to the *tip* of the branch.

HTH

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)