From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sun Sep  7 19:00:28 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26243
          for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 19:00:28 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26236
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 19:00:24 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from daemon@localhost)
	by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09418;
	Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:55:39 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22)
 via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009416; Mon Sep  8 01:55:38 1997
Message-ID: <34135B01.6201DD56@whistle.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 18:55:13 -0700
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Organization: Whistle Communications
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu" <info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu>
CC: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: [RFC] Possible CVS change.. 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

Dear CVS guru's (and freebsd types CC'd),

By changing the following change:
 (big isn't it?)
the following becomes possible:

cvs checkout -rMY_BRANCH -D"7 days ago" my-module
also
cvs update -rMY_BRANCH -D"May 1" my-module
is also allowable..
this seems useful to me 
In fact I desperatly need this..

does anyone know if tis is a reasonable thing to do, (or not?)
if you are one of the maintainers I'd definitly like to hear from you,
as if I don't I'll add this change to the FreeBSD CVS mirror,
as we use many branches and not being able to check
them out to a past date is a real pain..

better methods are of course just as welcome,
e.g. "-rMY_BRANCH:May 1" would work just as well for me.


julian@freebsd.org

 
--- update.c    Sun Sep  7 18:21:58 1997
+++ update.c.new        Sun Sep  7 18:21:42 1997
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@
        && tag != NULL
        && finfo->rcs != NULL)
     {
-       char *rev = RCS_getversion (finfo->rcs, tag, NULL, 1, NULL);
+       char *rev = RCS_getversion (finfo->rcs, tag, date, 1, NULL);
        if (rev != NULL
            && !RCS_nodeisbranch (finfo->rcs, tag))
            nonbranch = 1;