From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 6 11:54:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08155 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08134 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19927; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:54:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199804061854.LAA19927@austin.polstra.com> To: krentel@cs.rice.edu Subject: Re: cvs checkout In-Reply-To: <199804060301.WAA29398@cs.rice.edu> References: <199804060301.WAA29398@cs.rice.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:54:02 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <199804060301.WAA29398@cs.rice.edu>, Mark W. Krentel wrote: > I'm trying to update my sources on the 2.2 branch with cvs checkout > (and keeping a local copy of the CVS repository) instead of using cvsup. > But it seems that the "-D date" option conflicts with "-r tag" on > cvs checkout. Yes. > (1) Is this a bug in cvs, or did I just use the wrong options? "cvs -H checkout" indicates that the two options are mutually exclusive. So it's a "feature". > (2) Can cvs check out an entire branch on a given (past) date? Not as far as I know. > (3) As I recall, cvsup handles this correctly, right? > That is, I can ask for a given branch on a given date with cvsup? "Right" and "yes". > As a workaround, I could install cvsupd and then use cvsup instead > of cvs. Yes, and it's actually _much_ faster than a cvs checkout. The only catch is, you can no longer use CVS on your checked-out tree if you do it that way. If you decide to do this, you might wish to have a look at the "net/cvsup-mirror" port. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message