Re: CVS/Tag with tag and date

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Jeremie Le Hen <address@hidden> writes:

> please Cc: me in your replies as I am not subscribed to this list.
> 
> When I use "cvs up -r BRANCH", CVS/Tag contains "TBRANCH".
> When I use "cvs up -D date", CVS/Tag contains "Ddate".
> 
> I seem to recall that when I use "-r BRANCH -D date" together, the
> CVS/Tag file contains both "TBRANCH Ddate".

Nope. It will contain TBRANCH and the files will be checked out
as of the state of the BRANCH on the date.

> However, I have just tried this, but the Tag file just contains
> "TBRANCH".  Therefore, I can't easily create a diff against a file
> in a particular branch at a particular date.

You could use this:

 cvs update -r BRANCH -D date file
 cvs diff -r BASE -r HEAD file

> I gave a try with both cvs 1.11 and 1.12, but the behaviour seems
> to stay the same.

Yes, it is operating as intended.

If you are using cvs 1.12, then

   cvs diff -u -rBRANCH:2005-08-22 -rBRANCH file
or
   cvs diff -u -rBRANCH:2005-08-22 -rBRANCH:today file

will give you a diff of the 'file' between 2005-08-22 and today.

        -- Mark
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