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Bo Berglund wrote: >>> I am attempting to use this to determine the revisions between a >>> particular tag and the head >>> >>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG::HEAD >>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG:::HEAD >> >>Yes, that seems to be broken. I see the same behavior here. >> >>Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2260 >>(client/server) >>Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2151 >>(client/server) >> >> >>Maybe you can reformulate this without using HEAD... >> >>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG::HEAD >> >>almost as cvs log -rSOME_TAG:: >> >>> cvs log -rSOME_TAG:::HEAD >> >>as cvs log -rSOME_TAG:: >> > > I always thought that HEAD referred to the tip revision on TRUNK, so > HEAD is not usable to get to the tip on a branch. But the branch tag > itself should always refer to the *tip* of the branch. I'm not sure why you are writing this, but SOME_TAG in the examples above (at least as I tested it) was not a branch, it was a simple tag on the trunk. Gerhard