Re: feature request: pseudo-tag for accessing the trunk

Cameron, Steve wrote:

> > * Larry Jones <lawrence.jones@xxxxxxx> [2003-03-18 21:18]:
> >    
> >
> > > Steve Cameron has a patch that does that (although he spells it ".trunk"
> > > rather than "TRUNK"):
> > >      
> > Now that we have different branches for development and release,
> > do you see any chance that this will be committed to the dev
> > branch anytime soon?
> >
> > Kind regards
> >   Ingolf
> >    
>
> I haven't worked on that patch in a long time, unfortunately.
> (no internet access at home anymore, which I admit
> is somewhat ridiculous.)
>
> There is a problem with the ".origin" feature and 
> vendor branches (it doesn't work on vendor branches.)
> I don't recall the exact details, or know how hard
> it would be to fix it to work on vendor branches.
>
> Also unfortunate, I combined the two features,
> ".trunk" and ".origin" into one patch, because
> it was too hard to keep them separate.
>
> I would be surprised if the sanity.sh part of the
> patch still applies cleanly, as this was always prone to
> throwing rejects every time somebody added a new test...
> though it might not be too hard to fix.
>
> Feel free to ask me anything about the patch, or
> take it over, if any of you want to, since I don't have
> much time to work on CVS anymore.
>  

If anybody has time to clean this up and fix the bugs, this would be 
nice to see on the feature branch now that we have one.

Derek

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