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On 2004-01-29, Harrison, Andrew <andy.harrison at anite.com> wrote: [description of fly-out development with merges from main-to-branch before final branch-to-main delivery] > The problem is that there is no difference between revision 1.4 and 1.5. CVS > correctly detects this on a normal modify-commit, but not on a merge-commit. > The -f (force commit) flag is not being used. Is there any way to stop these > redundant revisions other than committing each file by hand? The simple answer is: no. I seem to remember Tony has applied my patch for this to the "development" (2.1.x) series, but not the "release" (2.0.x) series. (This is primarily because it might break things - it has been tested somewhat, but there are lots of cases for what can be done with files that haven't been tested.) phil -- change name before "@" to "phil" for email