Re: co -D 'the time revision 5.4 of a.c was committed'

[Mark E. Hamilton]

Bill,

bill pursell wrote:
> Currently, the thing that annoys me about CVS is that I can't
> seem to get a copy of the tree as it was at a certain time.
> That's not quite what I mean.  Suppose I want to know what
> the module foo looked like when a particular revision, say 5.4,
> of file a.c was checked in.  Currently, I have to checkout foo, look
> at the log for a.c to determine the time that revision 5.4 was
> committed, and then checkout the module with -D for that time.
> 3 steps instead of 1.  How does one do that directly?

Since revision numbers are specific to a file, the only way you could do 
what you want in one step is to have tagged the repository after 
commiting revision x.y of a file. If you don't do that, then the 
three-step process you describe is the only way to do it.

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Mark E. Hamilton
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Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
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