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Matt Schuckmann wrote: > 1. There is a --brief option for the diff command that gives a small > amount of information on the differing files, i.e. Repository file > name, revisions and some useless text about some temporary files. Yes, the mentioning of temp files has definitely degraded the usefulness of the command. It wasn't always this way. > It doesn't appear that this option is in the documentation but I > could have missed it, it's definatly not documented in the online > help. Also it appears that this option doesn't work for the rdiff > command which is too bad, perhaps this is a known bug. I'm pretty sure this used to work at some point. > 2. Apparently in the past CVS users have been advised to apply a both > a branch point tag and a branch tag whenever a branch is made, just to > facilitate this type of operation. > Is this still the case? > If so that's disappointing considering all the wonderful work that > has been done with mergepoints it seems that identifying the branch > point would be extreamly simple. > > Is there a reason why CVSNT can't identify the branch point for you? While we're at it, here's my feature suggestion: Introduce some kind of shorthand notation for referring to branchpoints, something like cvs up -r\branch i.e. use a backslash or whatever other character seems sensible here as prefix to the branch name. Cheers, -- Oliver ---- ------------------ JID: ogiesen at jabber.org ICQ: 18777742 (http://wwp.icq.com/18777742)