Did deleting everything resolve the problem? If so I'm going with the
fact that -D is a sticky option. Meaning cvs will keep using what you
set for -D until you explicitly override it.
Corey
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Sorry I meant "-D" (WinCVS takes care of that stuff - I just click the
> check box and enter the date it formats the command) :-(
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> Corey Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 18/07/2002 09:29:18
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> -d declares the CVSROOT on the unix client, whereas -D (according to
> documentation) declares a date. I'm not really sure how these flags
> would be applicable to WinCVS.
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> Also interesting to note that -D is a sticky option. Man page excerpt
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> -D date_spec
> Use the most recent revision no later than
> date_spec (a single argument, date description
> specifying a date in the past). A wide variety of
> date formats are supported, in particular ISO
> ("1972-09-24 20:05") or Internet ("24 Sep 1972
> 20:05"). The date_spec is interpreted as being in
> the local timezone, unless a specific timezone is
> specified. The specification is ``sticky'' when
> you use it to make a private copy of a source file;
> that is, when you get a working file using -D, cvs
> records the date you specified, so that further
> updates in the same directory will use the same
> date (unless you explicitly override it; see the
> description of the update command). -D is avail-
> able with the checkout, diff, history, export,
> rdiff, rtag, and update commands. Examples of
> valid date specifications include:
> 1 month ago
> 2 hours ago
> 400000 seconds ago
> last year
> last Monday
> yesterday
> a fortnight ago
> 3/31/92 10:00:07 PST
> January 23, 1987 10:05pm
> 22:00 GMT
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