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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: The -stable problem: my view 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jun 1996 14:19:15 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 13:53:19 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Notice that this implies that attempting to do wholesale merges of
>branches is a non-starter in CVS.  It /has/ to be done incrementally
>in order to work.  Moreover, the model that CVS was really designed
>for is more like this:

It looks like you can also specify dates for -j, so it *may* be possible
to do this by date.

>-GAWollman
>
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