Re: export command help

[david]

> Tom,
> 
> If you do not have any release tags you can still export using
> the HEAD version of each file
> 
>    cvs export -rHEAD MODULE-NAME
> 
> or use the -D date to export what the repository contained as
> of a giving date.  
> 
>    cvs export -D "22 May 2002 12:00" MODULE-NAME
> 
> There are many formats of acceptable dates.
> 
Yes, but in that case you have the danger of a hard-to-reproduce
export.  Since an export is only useful to created a frozen
snapshot, presumably for some sort of external use, it usually
corresponds to a release, and releases should have tags.
It wouldn't bother me if export only worked on a tag.  After
all, you can always cvs rtag a tag onto a specified time,
and export from there.

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