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Strange CVS update date format 'P'
From: |
Mark E. Hamilton |
Subject: |
Strange CVS update date format 'P' |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:26:36 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) |
I just had a developer come to me with a very strange problem. All of
the files in his sandbox had been checked out from the date
'D2008.01.16.07.00.00', and he had not done that. After investigating we
determined that he had intended to check out any new directories and
prune empties, so he used the (incorrect) command
cvs update -DP
instead of using the option '-dP'
Since the '-D' option sets the update date, this passed the date string
'P' to CVS. I assumed the date 'P' would have been invalid, but I tried
it with raw cvs and it took it. (In fact, 'cvs update -D <date>' will
accept any single upper case character except 'J' for the date string.)
Is this one of those "intentionally not documented here" date formats
the manual talks about, or are these just some odd truncated ISO8601
date formats?
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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
505-844-7666
- Strange CVS update date format 'P',
Mark E. Hamilton <=