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Re: Binary search through CVS branch? (was basic-improvements call for testers)

From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
To: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
Cc: "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David dot Billinghurst at riotinto dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:21:12 -0800
Subject: Re: Binary search through CVS branch? (was basic-improvements call for testers)
Organization: The NUXI BSD Group
References: <FAC87D7C874EAB46A847604DA4FD5A6457D8EE@crtsmail.corp.riotinto.org> <20021217215353.GA3623@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021217161704.A30390@us.ibm.com>
Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:17:04PM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:
> To clarify, does that mean that
> 
>   cvs co -r <branch> -D "date"
> 
> (cvs directly, rather than contrib/cvs_update) also doesn't work?

Correct.  CVS is lowsy.

> Is there any way, other than knowing all of the revisions, to get all
> files from a branch for a particular date?

Nope, and since the GCC project won't produce both branch and mainline
shapshots you're really in a hard place trying to narrow down when
something broke on the branch.

References:
- RE: Binary search through CVS branch? (was basic-improvements call for testers)
  - From: Billinghurst, David (CRTS)
- Re: Binary search through CVS branch? (was basic-improvements call for testers)
  - From: David O'Brien
- Re: Binary search through CVS branch? (was basic-improvements call for testers)
  - From: Janis Johnson

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