CVS repository downtime this weekend

David O'Brien obrien@NUXI.com
Thu Jun 27 15:04:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:23:49PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> BTW, why does the GCC snapshot process bother to tag the repository?
> 
> Other projects identify their snaps with ``YYYYMMDD'' and that, somewhat 
> suprisingly, indicates that it was checked out using ``-D 
> YYYY-MM-DD-gmt'' :-)  No tag required.

-D doesn't work on a branch.  CVS is brain-dead WRT branches.  You'd need
some of our FreeBSD CVS patches to use dates on a branch.



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