Holdover error in /usr/src/Makefile.inc1

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Mon Dec 16 18:48:42 UTC 2013


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Mueller
<mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> > It seems to me "SVNFLAGS?= -r HEAD" would switch stable/10 source tree to HEAD.  Right or wrong?
>
>> Wrong.  '-rHEAD' is the 'HEAD' *revision*, not branch.
>
>> Glen
>
> You mean HEAD here simply means the latest revision of whatever branch and not necessarily FreeBSD-current?
>
> Ambiguous use of HEAD, if that is the case, had me confused.

Subversion has no real knowledge of a 'HEAD' or 'master' branch.  To
svn all branches are the same.

In the url svn://.....freebsd.org/base/head 'head' is just an
arbitrary label we happen to use.  -rHEAD means the 'HEAD revision of
whatever branch we happen to be on'.


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