Re: feature request: pseudo-tag for accessing the trunk

Derek Robert Price <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
Organization Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Cameron, Steve wrote:

>>* Larry Jones <[email protected]> [2003-03-18 21:18]:
>>    
>>
>>>Steve Cameron has a patch that does that (although he spells it ".trunk"
>>>rather than "TRUNK"):
>>>      
>>>
>>Now that we have different branches for development and release,
>>do you see any chance that this will be committed to the dev
>>branch anytime soon?
>>
>>Kind regards
>>   Ingolf
>>    
>>
>
>I haven't worked on that patch in a long time, unfortunately.
>(no internet access at home anymore, which I admit
>is somewhat ridiculous.)
>
>There is a problem with the ".origin" feature and 
>vendor branches (it doesn't work on vendor branches.)
>I don't recall the exact details, or know how hard
>it would be to fix it to work on vendor branches.
>
>Also unfortunate, I combined the two features,
>".trunk" and ".origin" into one patch, because
>it was too hard to keep them separate.
>
>I would be surprised if the sanity.sh part of the
>patch still applies cleanly, as this was always prone to
>throwing rejects every time somebody added a new test...
>though it might not be too hard to fix.
>
>Feel free to ask me anything about the patch, or
>take it over, if any of you want to, since I don't have
>much time to work on CVS anymore.
>  
>

If anybody has time to clean this up and fix the bugs, this would be 
nice to see on the feature branch now that we have one.

Derek

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