Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:54:02 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: krentel@cs.rice.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs checkout Message-ID: <199804061854.LAA19927@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199804060301.WAA29398@cs.rice.edu> References: <199804060301.WAA29398@cs.rice.edu>
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In article <199804060301.WAA29398@cs.rice.edu>, Mark W. Krentel <krentel@cs.rice.edu> wrote: > I'm trying to update my sources on the 2.2 branch with cvs checkout > (and keeping a local copy of the CVS repository) instead of using cvsup. > But it seems that the "-D date" option conflicts with "-r tag" on > cvs checkout. Yes. > (1) Is this a bug in cvs, or did I just use the wrong options? "cvs -H checkout" indicates that the two options are mutually exclusive. So it's a "feature". > (2) Can cvs check out an entire branch on a given (past) date? Not as far as I know. > (3) As I recall, cvsup handles this correctly, right? > That is, I can ask for a given branch on a given date with cvsup? "Right" and "yes". > As a workaround, I could install cvsupd and then use cvsup instead > of cvs. Yes, and it's actually _much_ faster than a cvs checkout. The only catch is, you can no longer use CVS on your checked-out tree if you do it that way. If you decide to do this, you might wish to have a look at the "net/cvsup-mirror" port. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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