> -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Hyslop [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 09 September 2013 18:12 > To: Chris Nicol > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: merge updates from HEAD into branch by date > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 13-09-09 5:09 AM, Chris Nicol wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble figuring out the correct syntax for what I want to > > do. > [...] > > > I have a checked-out copy of 'branch1' and from its root I have run > > > > cvs update -P "-jHEAD:6/9/11 9:00" "-jHEAD:6/9/11 11:00" and cvs > > update -P "-jtag11:6/9/11 9:00" "-jtag12:6/9/11 11:00" and many other > > variants. > > Specify *either* a tag *or* a date, not both: > > cvs update -P -jtag11 -jtag12 > > or > > cvs update -P "-j6/9/11 9:00" "-j6/9/11 11:00"
Jim, Thanks for the reply but the date-only option gets this result: cvs [update aborted]: Numeric join tag 6/9/11 9:00 may not contain a date specifier The required format seems to be -jSymbolic_Tag:Date_Specifier Regards, Chris Nicol > > - -- > Jim Hyslop > Dreampossible: Better software. Simply. http://www.dreampossible.ca > Consulting * Mentoring * Training in > C/C++ * OOD * SW Development & Practices * Version Management ----- > BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlIt80QACgkQLdDyDwyJw+MYOgCgsGlfQIM1hLTsOgC4f6DQrd > uq > ktEAoOsZVquFs4cgUle/czpnGrUgo6yR > =igLj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
