[cvsnt] Join with date tags

Mathieu Miller mmiller at jamdat.ca
Thu Feb 12 14:36:54 GMT 2004


Tony Hoyle wrote:

>"Mathieu Miller" <mmiller at jamdat.ca> wrote in message 
>news:mailman.331.1076539403.472.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Is there a reason why cvs refuses to accept date as join arguments for the 
>>update - j command?
>>
>>If I look a tag.c i get:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>if (isdigit ((unsigned char) join_tag[0]))
>>    error (1, 0,
>>   "Numeric join tag %s may not contain a date specifier",
>>   join_tag);
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>    
>>
>That's not what it's saying.
>
>It's saying you can't say 'cvs update -j 1.24:yesterday' as that doesn't 
>make any sense.
>
>You can of course still say 'cvs update -j my_branch:yesterday'.
>  
>
Thanks!

I was calling update with only a date tag:

cvs update -j "2004-02-11 20:48:23 GMT" -j "2004-02-11 20:49:57 GMT"

which also doesn't make any sense :)

Mathieu.









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