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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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In article <3370DF27.398A68D@whistle.com>,
Julian Elischer  <julian@whistle.com> wrote:
> 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?

If you only want to check it out, and aren't planning on checking it
back in again, you can do it with CVSup. :-)  Just set
"tag=RELENG_2_2" and "date=96.12.25.00.00.00" in your supfile.  Fire
up a local cvsupd, and aim your cvsup client at it.  It's actually a
lot faster than "cvs co".

But it doesn't create any of the "CVS" directories, so you won't be
able to use cvs on it after that.

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
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