Re: Export files by specific revision number

[Larry Jones]

Spiro Trikaliotis writes:
> 
> I ask myself if the CVS developers would accept a patch which add
> another option to "cvs export" to be allowed to specify a specific
> revision number with -r (instead of a tag, which is required now for
> "cvs export")?

There's precedent for that in the admin command: many of the options
that take a revision will allow a numeric revision for a single file but
not for multiple files.  The existing test is somewhat simple-minded,
though, and wouldn't work for export since export works on the
repository rather than a working directory.

> BTW: Even cvs -H export does not mention that -r must be given a
> symbolic tag. Event this command mentions tag or revision.

Fixed.

> address@hidden:~/cvs-source$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/cvs co 
> ccvs
> Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if 
> any)
> address@hidden:~/cvs-source$

It works for me.  You may want to try a manual ssh in verbose mode to
see what's going wrong:

        ssh -v address@hidden cvs server

-Larry Jones

Wow, how existential can you get? -- Hobbes