[Of course he's right.  I don't have a very good intuition about when
to worry about compatibility and when not to, but in this case seems
to me it could just be fixed.  Should check whether any documentation
refers to this, of course.

Test ann-10 in the testsuite tests for this.

-kingdon]

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:19:47 -0700
To: bug-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Subject: cvs annotate ignores branches by default
From: tromey@cygnus.com


>Submitter-Id:   net
>Originator: 	 Tom Tromey
>Organization:
net
>Confidential:  no
>Synopsis:	"cvs annotate" ignores branches by default
>Severity:	serious
>Priority:	low
>Category: 	cvs
>Class:		sw-bug
>Release:	cvs-1.9.9
>Environment:
System: Linux creche 2.0.18 #1 Tue Oct 22 14:28:15 EDT 1996 i586
Architecture: i586

>Description:

I'm doing all my work on a branch.  If I run "cvs annotate <file>" in
my source tree, by default I see the annotations from the trunk.  I
have to explicitly specify the revision if I want to see information
from the branch.

I think this is wrong.  cvs should show the annotations for the head
revision that I'm working from by default.  In my case, I should have
to do extra work to see annotations from the trunk; the branch should
be the default.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix: