This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Binary search through CVS branch? (was basic-improvements call for testers)
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:53:53PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:57:09PM +1100, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:
> > The correct answer is
> >
> > contrib/gcc_update -r gcc-3_4-basic-improvements-branch -D "2002-11-06 00:00 UTC"
>
> That should not have worked unless you have hacked up version of CVS.
> CVS does not DTRT with -r + -D. This is one of the bigger problems of
> CVS.
To clarify, does that mean that
cvs co -r <branch> -D "date"
(cvs directly, rather than contrib/cvs_update) also doesn't work?
If so, I'm heartbroken (or at least disappointed). Is there any way,
other than knowing all of the revisions, to get all files from a
branch for a particular date?
Janis