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From: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: CVS imbicility
In-Reply-To: <199702190451.UAA24679@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Feb 18, 97 08:51:23 pm"
To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs)
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> 
> Is there any reason why cvs doesn't let you examine the diff between
> two revisions on the same branch with different dates, when that branch
> is not the main branch??
> 
> For example, why can't you say:
> 
>   cvs diff -r SOME_BRANCH -D 'January 1, 1997 0:0' -D 'January 2, 1997 0:0' 
> 
> or maybe:
> 
>   cvs diff -r SOME_BRANCH:'January 1, 1997 0:0' -r SOME_BRANCH:'January 2, 1997 0:0' 
> 
> The second one is obviously possible because "cvs checkout -j" can do it.
> 
> This is *really* annoying.
> 

There is another thing, try to checkout some specific date on a branch
other than head. :-) Would I love to be able to do that.

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