[cvsnt] Re: "cvs diff -rHEAD" annoyance

[Tony Hoyle]

On 15 Jul 2004 16:04:09 +0200, Johan Holmberg <holmberg at iar.se> wrote:


>One of the things I tried to point out, was that standard CVS *didn't*
>behave that way. I have tried the following constallations of
>clients/servers:

As I said, check google - it does.  They might have changed the
behaviour in the last couple of months but the current cvsnt behaviour
has been standard since at least 1999 and probably earlier.

>I don't know if I understood all of that disscussion, but weren't they
>talking about different branches, and the meaning of HEAD in that context ?
>My example was very simple with all revisions on the mainline.
>
They are saying that specifying HEAD with diff will enable different
behaviour to specifying HEAD in any other command.  In particular it
*will* select deleted files from the branch.  See the output of the
command in the thread - the error message you queried features and is
one of the points under discussion.

Tony