Re: cvs updating sticky tags

[Jim Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> In my branch "SABS-KG" I used to run:
>
> cvs update -d
>
> To update the sources for a build. I used the CVS/Tag to track the
> build.
>
> I've switched over the build system to build by particular dates:
>
> cvs update -d -D 2005-09-27T23:53+0000
>
> Now CVS/Tag only contains date information and not the Sticky Tag of
> the branch.
>
> Perhaps I had the wrong command. I tried:
>
> cvs update -d -D 2005-09-27T23:53+0000 -r SABS-KG
>
> But that doesn't have sticky date.
>
> Is this a bug?
No, CVS is behaving exactly the way it's supposed to. For purposes of 
the 'update' command, a date is considered to be a kind of tag. A file 
can only be sticky on one tag at a time.

An important thing to note is that the -D flag always selects revisions 
from the default branch (which is usually the trunk, unless you have 
used 'cvs admin -b').

--
Jim