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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com
Subject: Re: CVS guru's only
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>ok, so I have a branch on the cvs tree 
>(say called RELENG_2_2)
>and I want to check out that branch as it was on Dec 25 1996.
>HOW DO I DO THAT?

Short answer: don't do that.  cvs doesn't really support development on
branches.

If you must, try somewthing like:

	cvs co -r RELENG_2_2 src
	cd src
	cvs update -j RELENG_2_2 -j RELENG_2_2:'25 Dec 1996'

Bruce