[cvsnt] How to get the diffs between branchpoint and tip of branch

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:28:22 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler
<lists at connectionbrazil.com> wrote:

>Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>> Anyway one wants to get to the starting point just like updating with a
>> timestamp set at exactly the time the branch was created. This will get
>> the files that existed on the trunk at that time.
>
>Maybe if the time when the branch was created is available as metadata of
>the branch, this can be solved through this route. The creation time would
>be helpful anyway... many tag naming conventions include date/time because
>of that.
>

Unfortunately tags do not carry timestamps...
But if you put a taginfo script in place to log all tag operations and
add the timestamp then you are in better shape. The CVSNT audit
function helps too, it logs *everything* into the database with
timestamps and all.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)