Re: Getting diffs between two revisions

[Mike Ayers]

Derek Robert Price wrote:
> Johnny John wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > Should I not be able to update my working copy of a file by doing 
> > something as follows?
> >
> > cvs update -j HEAD:"2002-07-17 12:00" -j HEAD:"2002-07-19 12:00"
> >
> > to get changes between July 17 and July 19 placed into my local 
> > working copy?
> >
> > I tried it, and nothing was patched.
> >
> > thanks.
> > -Johnny.
>
>
>
>  From <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#IDX257>:
>
>  > `HEAD' refers to the most recent version available in the repository
>
> In other words, it's a static tag, the most recent version on the trunk, 
> not the trunk itself as a branch.  There isn't a trunk tag, but if you 
> use dates to tag the trunk at the two times you mentioned, you should be 
> able to get what you were trying to.

	If I am interpreting correctly, no such tags were made.  Johnny wants 
to "get changes between July 17 and July 19 placed into my local 
working copy", i.e.  filter based solely on date of commit, which I do 
not believe is possible with CVS.


/|/|ike