Re: feature request: pseudo-tag for accessing the trunk
Derek Robert Price <[email protected]>
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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 -- *8^) Email: [email protected] Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>! -- "Calm down. It's only ones and zeros."