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

[David O'Brien]

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.