Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:07:50 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS imbicility Message-ID: <199702190807.KAA15122@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199702190451.UAA24679@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Feb 18, 97 08:51:23 pm"
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> > Is there any reason why cvs doesn't let you examine the diff between > two revisions on the same branch with different dates, when that branch > is not the main branch?? > > For example, why can't you say: > > cvs diff -r SOME_BRANCH -D 'January 1, 1997 0:0' -D 'January 2, 1997 0:0' > > or maybe: > > cvs diff -r SOME_BRANCH:'January 1, 1997 0:0' -r SOME_BRANCH:'January 2, 1997 0:0' > > The second one is obviously possible because "cvs checkout -j" can do it. > > This is *really* annoying. > There is another thing, try to checkout some specific date on a branch other than head. :-) Would I love to be able to do that. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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