[cvsnt] Re: Latest Updates

[Tony Hoyle]

Oliver Giesen wrote:
> Tony Hoyle wrote:
> 
> 
>>* Allow HEAD:date syntax on update
> 
> 
> Hmm, does that really make sense? So far I have been thinking that HEAD
> was a tag instead of a branch, i.e. that it refered to a particular
> revision, namely the tip of the default branch, i.e. not necessarily
> the trunk - the default branch could be changed with cvs admin -b.

There's no other way to explicitly state that you don't want to use a 
branch.  I've always thought of HEAD as a branch (as you can commit to it).

> Wouldn't it be more consistent to introduce a new reserved symbolic
> name TRUNK or something like that for this purpose?

That would be a lot of work I suspect - HEAD is treated specially in 
lots of small routines in the code.

Tony