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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 1996 14:25:45 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, peter@jhome.DIALix.COM
Subject:   Re: sup/cvs tags
Message-ID:  <9604061925.AA07184@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604060734.RAA15566@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199604060734.RAA15566@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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<<On Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:34:30 +1000, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> BTW, what is the best way to look at the diffs in the wollman_polling
> branch?  `cvs diff -r HEAD -r wollman_polling' gave too many current
> diffs just one or two days after the branch.  How do I get the date
> of the branch in a form suitable for `cvs diff -D'?

It seems to me a bug that CVS won't take as input the date format that
RCS outputs...  In any event, you can say ``cvs diff -D '1 april' -r
wollman_polling'' and get reasonable-looking diffs.

-GAWollman

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