Neil Carlson wrote: > I have the following scenario. A new file foo.c was added to the > head on Apr 1. On Jun 1 changes on the head were merged to a branch > MY_BRANCH that existed prior to Apr 1; in particular foo.c was added > to the branch. I now want to recover a working copy of the branch > as it existed on May 1. I check out a copy with the command: > cvs co -r MY_BRANCH -D "2004-05-01" my_module > For some reason I'm getting a copy of foo.c, when foo.c was not part > of the branch at that time. Is this the way it's supposed to work? Yes, because -D xxx means "the latest revision before xxx". If you want *just* that date, try -D"2004-05-01<2004-05-02".
Actually, it shouldn't really be such a big issue, should it? Your makefiles will just ignore the file. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs