"HEAD" vs. "TRUNK" -- i hereby retract my earlier rants: call it "HEAD".
i was skimming http://drupal.org/node/82257 and noticed some people referring to "TRUNK" and others to "HEAD". this is all my fault. ;) furthermore, i'm hereby admitting i was wrong about this. CVS is just internally inconsistent about its own terminology. :( while it's true that every branch has a head (the end of that branch), there really is only one HEAD (all caps), which is the special case of the head of the trunk. there's no such thing as "cvs co -r TRUNK", but you *can* do "cvs co -r HEAD". so, it's confusing and lame, but if you mean the trunk, it probably *is* best to just refer to it as "HEAD", since that's the special-case "branch" you can checkout from (or update to) that CVS uses internally. if you want to talk about the trunk, best to do so without the caps, so as not to confuse it with the name of a valid "branch". my apologies for introducing this inconsistency in our own vocabulary... thanks, -derek (dww)
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 22:54 -0800, Derek Wright wrote:
i was skimming http://drupal.org/node/82257 and noticed some people referring to "TRUNK" and others to "HEAD". this is all my fault. ;) furthermore, i'm hereby admitting i was wrong about this. CVS is just internally inconsistent about its own terminology. :(
while it's true that every branch has a head (the end of that branch), there really is only one HEAD (all caps), which is the special case of the head of the trunk. there's no such thing as "cvs co -r TRUNK", but you *can* do "cvs co -r HEAD". so, it's confusing and lame, but if you mean the trunk, it probably *is* best to just refer to it as "HEAD", since that's the special-case "branch" you can checkout from (or update to) that CVS uses internally. if you want to talk about the trunk, best to do so without the caps, so as not to confuse it with the name of a valid "branch".
my apologies for introducing this inconsistency in our own vocabulary...
thanks, -derek (dww)
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness..... And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. ;)
Darrel O'Pry wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 22:54 -0800, Derek Wright wrote:
i was skimming http://drupal.org/node/82257 and noticed some people
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness..... And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. ;)
Blessed is he who can quickly recognize a mistake, admit fault, issue a correction and move forward.
On 11/3/06, Earl Miles <merlin@logrus.com> wrote:
Darrel O'Pry wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 22:54 -0800, Derek Wright wrote:
i was skimming http://drupal.org/node/82257 and noticed some people
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness..... And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. ;)
Blessed is he who can quickly recognize a mistake, admit fault, issue a correction and move forward.
Amen ...
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