[cvsnt] Re: cvs update -j question

[Tony Hoyle]

keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> 
> no, that'll never do.  I don't want *all* of the changes on head, just 
> the ones i committed.  HEAD changes a lot, but when there's a bug fix 
> that must be pushed back to a release version, we want only that fix.

In that case you can use commit IDs (you can probably setup a way to do 
this automatically depending on your setup).

eg.

cvs update -j @<92f40fd1200c41b @92f40fd1200c41b

(OTOH I'm not sure whether that syntax made it into the 2.0.51d release 
so it may not be useful for you just yet - the @< is fairly recent.)

The problem with things like "5 minutes ago" is someone could commit an 
unrelated fix while you're typing the command.

Tony