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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:56:57 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I check out a snapshot?
Message-ID:  <19970921095657.08487@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970920130830.UH42545@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 01:08:30PM %2B0200
References:  <19970920124235.58941@lemis.com> <19970920130830.UH42545@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 01:08:30PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
> As Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> I have the CVS tree here on my system, and I know we've just done a
>> snap, but I see nothing in the tree to help me determine where, when
>> or what it is.  What do I need to do?
>
> ``make release''.

That'll give me -current, not the snap.

> SNAPs don't have any particular mark in CVS.  If you know the exact
> date the original SNAP has been done, you can use -D to CVS to
> checkout exactly this tree for building the release.

I thought you were going to say something like this.  That's fine, but
wouldn't it (looks at jkh) be a good idea to publish the date and time
of the snap?

Greg




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