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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 95 18:03:59 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:38:33 -0700
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>I think you are the one confused here, there is no cvs branch called
>``main branch''.  cvs commands using -rHEAD are with respect to what most
>folks call the main branch, correct terminolgy is the HEAD branch.

   That is NOT correct. cvs operations refering to -rHEAD refer to the most
recent version of the relevant branch. It only refers to the most recent
version of the "main" branch when that is the branch it was checked out from
(or in other words has no sticky tag).

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