Re: removing old snapshot CVS tags?

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

Also take look at <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/reghunt.html>:
To get all files for a particular date on the branch, check out the 
branchpoint and then update with all changes between the branchpoint 
and the desired date.  For example,

    BRANCH="gcc-3_2-branch"
    DATE="2002-09-01"
    rm -rf gcc
    cvs co -r ${BRANCH}point gcc
    cvs up -d -j${BRANCH}point -j${BRANCH}:"${DATE}"

This method works reliably when it starts with a clean checkout. 
Further updates that use the previous date and a new date sometimes run 
into problems, with a few files not being updated correctly.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 17:08 US/Eastern, Kazu Hirata wrote:

> Hi Alexandre,
>
> > > I am for it.  People can always do "cvs up -D ...".
> >
> > Except that -D doesn't work for branches, and that's exactly where
> > probably at least half of our snapshots have come from.
>
> Really?
>
> cvs up -r gcc-3_3-branch -D 2003-07-01 ChangeLog
>
> seems to work as far as I can tell from "cvs status".
>
> Kazu Hirata