From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 20 17:27:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04139 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04134 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA02521; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:56:57 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970921095657.08487@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:56:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? References: <19970920124235.58941@lemis.com> <19970920130830.UH42545@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19970920130830.UH42545@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 01:08:30PM +0200 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 01:08:30PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > As Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I have the CVS tree here on my system, and I know we've just done a >> snap, but I see nothing in the tree to help me determine where, when >> or what it is. What do I need to do? > > ``make release''. That'll give me -current, not the snap. > SNAPs don't have any particular mark in CVS. If you know the exact > date the original SNAP has been done, you can use -D to CVS to > checkout exactly this tree for building the release. I thought you were going to say something like this. That's fine, but wouldn't it (looks at jkh) be a good idea to publish the date and time of the snap? Greg