From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 24 08:42:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA14270 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA14260 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23040; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:42:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA23393; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:41:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:41:59 -0700 Message-Id: <199711241641.JAA23393@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Hay Cc: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth), nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: <199711241353.PAA00306@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> References: <199711241353.PAA00306@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Something I have been worrying about. If I get the latest cvs repository > in this new scheme and I then do a 'cvs co -D"yesterday" src' do I get > the date/number of yesterday or do I still get the one that was generated > at the last cvs commit? You get neither, since CVS is smart enough to know that a version of this file doesn't exist at this/time date on this branch. So, depending on your branch, you'd get *no* special version #, and instead the GENERIC one used for the branch like now. Nate