From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 6 11:26:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA11764 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:26:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11759 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA07184; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 14:25:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 14:25:45 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9604061925.AA07184@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, peter@jhome.DIALix.COM Subject: Re: sup/cvs tags In-Reply-To: <199604060734.RAA15566@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199604060734.RAA15566@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > BTW, what is the best way to look at the diffs in the wollman_polling > branch? `cvs diff -r HEAD -r wollman_polling' gave too many current > diffs just one or two days after the branch. How do I get the date > of the branch in a form suitable for `cvs diff -D'? It seems to me a bug that CVS won't take as input the date format that RCS outputs... In any event, you can say ``cvs diff -D '1 april' -r wollman_polling'' and get reasonable-looking diffs. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant