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

[Gerhard Fiedler]

Bo Berglund 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.

I'm not sure why you are writing this, but SOME_TAG in the examples above
(at least as I tested it) was not a branch, it was a simple tag on the
trunk.

Gerhard