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well, if i am not mistaken, it came from my question originally. And if this is supported, I no longer need the HEAD:date syntax: cvs update -j DATE -j HEAD but that doesn't work either. Thus the HEAD:date thing makes sense to me. Oliver Giesen wrote: > John Kinson wrote: > > >>Outside of CVS as you know, HEAD usually indicates a revision, and >>TRUNK or MAIN indicates the branch. But to introduce a new (more >>accurate) name for the trunk to CVSnt would probably confuse more >>users than it would benefit, IMHO. > > > Granted I could possibly live without that for a little longer too but > by the way that Tony introduced the -rHEAD:date syntax, he has > explicitly made HEAD semantically a branch. This new syntax doesn't > make sense to me. Either I want the head revision or I want a revision > from a specified date. I can't have both (unless the date matches the > head revision). > > Maybe this could have better been resolved by adding a new option to > enforce checkout from the default branch only. This would for instance > be consistent with how Log handles this problem. Unfortunately update > -b is already taken as an option... > > Cheers, >