Re: Questions about cvs remove files

[Larry Jones]

Parth venkat writes:
> 
> How (which command of cvs) would get me the older versions of these deleted
> files (when i want to view them )? or is it that every time i do a cvs update
> the files would come to my working directory and the way to avoid this would
> be to use cvs update -P so cvs does not update the deleted files in my work
> area. 

Most any CVS command will work on a deleted file provided you give it an
explicit revision number that you want it to work on.  The most common
commands for deleted files are probably update -p and log.

> 2) On our repository the time i get for a file history report (cvs history
> -report -a -c -l )when i run a history command is GMT. Is it common for all
> the cvs repositories to have GMT time for such a report or was it the way our
> repository was set up. 

That's the way CVS works; internal times are always in UTC (the
politically correct version of GMT).

> Our repository is on EST ( -5 from GMT ) . But right now i get the time diff
> i.e when i run the history command as only 4 hours ( probably day light
> savings not yet affected on our system ). Is it some setting i am missing. 

On the contrary, daylight saving time *has* affected your system -- EST
is -5 from UTC, EDT (which is what we're in currently) is -4 from UTC.

-Larry Jones

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