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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig
To: davidg@Root.COM
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:41:00 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199509150138.SAA00154@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 14, 95 06:38:33 pm
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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).

Try again.. and to prove your self wrong try these commands:

cvs co -rRELENG_2_1_0 pstat
cd pstat
cvs update -rHEAD
cvs status pstat.c

> 
> -DG
> 


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