Re: CVS branch management (was Re: A problem with new pg_dump)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Unfortunately "cvs log" isn't all that great about distinguishing
> branches from tags --- it calls 'em all "symbolic names".

Minor addition to this: you can distinguish branches and tags by using
`cvs status -v'.

(Historical note: CVS was originally implemented as shell scripts on
top of RCS.  The .0 syntax was magic which CVS used to indicate a
branch as opposed to a revision tag.  The output of `cvs log' is
simply the output of `rlog' on the underlying RCS file.  `cvs status'
is not based on an existing RCS command.)

Ian

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