Re: Identifying base version-no of all files in a branch

Larry Jones <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:22:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bulgrien, Kevin writes:
> 
> The list archives contain threads that discuss a number of ideas
> about how one might to analytically determine this information.
> Some of these threads deal with trying to find the time/date
> that a branch was created, but that is very much the same kind
> of issue.

No, it's not.  CVS knows, absolutely and for sure, what the base
revision of the branch is in each file -- branches wouldn't work if it
didn't.  But it has no concept of *when* the branch was created; it
could be different for each and every file.
-- 
Larry Jones

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