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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