I was reading your patch to try and understand why .trunk is needed...
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> One or both @samp{-r} options can be replaced by a
Stephen> @samp{-D @var{date}} option, described above.
Stephen> +
Stephen> + CAUTION: the special tag `HEAD' is interpreted by
Stephen> + the `cvs diff' command in a different way than it
Stephen> + is interpreted by any other cvs command. `cvs diff'
Stephen> + takes `-r HEAD' to mean the following, as nearly as
Stephen> + I can tell:
Stephen> +
Stephen> + For `cvs diff', `HEAD' means the most recent revision
Stephen> + on the `current branch' (taking into account whatever
Stephen> + sticky tags are active in your working directory) unless
Stephen> + the particular file being diffed is not present on the
Stephen> + branch, in which case the head revision of the trunk is
Stephen> + taken. It is evident that there are at least some cases
Stephen> + for which this definition fails, that is, the wrong
Stephen> + revision may be found by `cvs diff' when used in combination
Stephen> + with `-r HEAD'. You may wish to use `.trunk' rather than
Stephen> + `HEAD'. The `.trunk' tag acts as a branch tag name for the
Stephen> + trunk.
Stephen> +
This seems very strange behaviour for diff, and I now understand why
you might want to diff against .trunk. But why does diff work that way?
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