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Date:      Thu, 8 May 1997 07:30:36 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVS guru's only
Message-ID:  <199705080530.HAA10611@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <19970508022630.38795@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "May 8, 97 02:26:30 am"

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> According to Julian Elischer:
> > 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?
> 
> I'd say:
> 
> cvs co -r RELENG_2_2 -D '12/25/96 00:00 PST' src
> 
> The tag will be sticky (i.e. will be retained through cvs update).
> -- 
> Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
> FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #8: Wed May  7 13:25:41 CEST 1997
> 

Are you sure about this? My experiments show that it does not work (it
ignore one of the two) and "cvs co -H" give the usage as:
====
zibbi:~ # cvs co -H
Usage:
  cvs checkout [-ANPcflnps] [-r rev | -D date] [-d dir] [-k kopt] modules...
  ....
====

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za



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