From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 27 00:25:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18796 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18790 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA24256; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:55:18 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA00708; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:55:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980327185517.11456@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:55:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: How to check out 2.2.6-RELEASE? References: <19980327174915.60538@freebie.lemis.com> <5680.890984310@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <5680.890984310@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 11:38:30PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 March 1998 at 23:38:30 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I've just spent a fair amount of time trying to check out >> 2.2.6-RELEASE. Here's the command: >> >> cvs co -r 2.2.6-RELEASE src > > Wrong. Right. This was a typo in the message, not in what I was doing. Sorry about that. What I really typed was # cvs co -r RELENG_2_2_6_RELEASE src It didn't work until I changed $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/taginfo. >> RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE, but not RELENG_2_2_6_RELEASE. I added >> RELENG_2_2_6_RELEASE, and voilą! I can now check it out. > > Right. :-) > > For a convenient "glossary of tags" it's often the easiest thing > to do just to say: > > cd /usr/src > cvs log Makefile | more > (see first couple of screenfulls). What I did was in fact: # cvs log /usr/src/Makefile|less In case there's any doubt here, I still claim things don't work that way. I tried exactly what you suggested, but it didn't work until I modified taginfo. What'd going on here? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message