Just grab the Date of the latest change you want and then when you want to go back do a cvs update -D <date> -r <branch>
donald On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:12:26AM -0500, Volpe, Christopher R (Research) wrote: > Hi folks- > I'm new to the list, so I apologize if this has been asked. I perused the last few >months of > archived messages, but couldn't find the FAQ referred to on > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs. > > Anyway, here's what I'd like to be able to do. I want to have the equivalent >functionality of a > tag, but without actually writing to the repository. That is, I want to record the >state of the > revisions of all the files in my working directory so that I can revert to that >state at a later > time. But I don't want to modify the repository itself, for a couple of reasons: > > 1) The repository is shared by a large community, and the owners don't like the >prospect of having a > user (much less *many* users) creating more than one or two tags a year. > 2) The functionality needs to be available from a shared testing account that has >read-only anonymous > access to the repository. > > Now, the straightforward solution would be to write a script, or a pair of scripts, >that does a "cvs > status", and parses the output and writes it out in a condensed form, and another >that reads this > condensed form and pulls out all the specified file revisions. However, before I go >reinventing the > wheel, I'd like to know if there exists such a tool already, possibly with more >bells and whistles > than I was planning to implement. Thanks in advance for any information you can >provide. > > > Chris > > GE Global Research Center > > >___________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > > > Dr. Christopher R. Volpe, Ph.D. > Computer Scientist > Visualization and Computer Vision Lab > Imaging Technologies > Bldg KW, Room C215 > P.O. Box 8, Schenectady, NY 12301 > > (518) 387-7766, Dial Comm: 8*833-7766, Fax: (518) 387-6981 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.crd.ge.com/~volpecr > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs