Hi Andrew, Could you please give a little more detail how I can find different CVS branches?
Thanks, M Z On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > > M Z wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to checkout code from different branches (such as 8.3, 8.4). >> >> I found a few ways to checkout code from CVS: >> 1. webCVS: http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/ >> >> 2. cvs -z3 -d >> :pserver:anoncvs:passw...@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot >> co -P pgsql >> >> 3. $ rsync --progress -avzCH --delete anoncvs.postgresql.org::pgsql-cvs >> $CVSROOT >> >> However, how can I checkout code from different branches (such as 8.3, >> 8.4)? >> > > > CVS is documented here, among other places: < > http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs.html> > > To check out a particular branch such as REL8_4_STABLE, use the -r option > on the checkout command: > > cvs checkout -r branchname > > cheers > > andrew > > > > >