Per-file cvs tags of .patch files.

For foo.patch corresponding to foo.info with version 1.0 and revision 2:
$ cvs checkout -r 1.0-2 foo.patch

-- K

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, David R. Morrison wrote:

> Well, it still doesn't solve the problem of how to retrieve an old
> patch file that correctly matches the fink version number.
>
> Peter O'Gorman jokingly suggested on IRC using "ar" to combine them.
> Or maybe it wasn't a joke?  In fact, some way of combining them would
> be get.  (The "ar" idea is not so good because the resulting file is
> binary; we need a text file so the CVS tracks revisions properly.)
>
> How about the ancient notion of a "shar" file.  I haven't seen such a
> beast in a long time, nor tools to manipulate it, but it was basically
> a self-extracting, text-only version of a tar file.  Is there an up to
> date version of this anyplace?
>
>   -- Dave


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