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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