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Re: Can the -D option be used on a branch?


From: David L. Martin
Subject: Re: Can the -D option be used on a branch?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:56:26 -0500

> David L. Martin writes:
> > 
> > I'd like to be able to checkout from a branch but take revisions that
> > are older than a specified date.  Since the -D and -r are both
> > sticky, they apparently cannot be used in combination.  Does
> > anyone know of a workaround or combination of commands to
> > do this?
> 
> Actually, they can be used in combination.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 

Ah yes, so they can!  The tag is sticky, not the date, in the resulting
checkout, but the date option is honored as expected.  The command
usage for checkout and update (cvs --help co, cvs --help up) should
perhaps be changed from [-r rev | -D date] to [-r rev] [-D date] to indicate
that both options may be used in combination.

In contrast, I note that rtag and tag operations do not accept the
combination of -r and -D options.  They are mutually exclusive, and
the help for rtag and tag indicates this ([-r rev | -D date]).  It would be
nice for tag/rtag to accept both options as well.  (But one could always
tag following checkout with both options and achieve essentially the
same result).

Thanks,
David Martin




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