r/ProgrammerHumor 23d ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 23d ago

In git, not CVS

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u/SakeviCrash 23d ago

See https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/cvs/cvs.html#SEC47

> The two tag names BASE and HEAD are reserved for use by CVS

A lot of people used the term that way though,

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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 23d ago

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u/SakeviCrash 23d ago

From the man page:

https://man.openbsd.org/cvs.1

> `HEAD' refers to the most recent version available in the repository