RE: Tagging with -D option

[Jim.Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> "Fouts Christopher (6452)" writes:
> > 
> >    > cvs rtag -D "2004-Apr-01 11:00:00 EST" -r HEAD my_repos
> > 
> > I get "Can't parse date/time". Notes and books tell me this is
> > the correct syntax, but apparently not. What is it? I have
> > CVS v1.10.8
> 
> 1.10.8 is ancient, the current stable release is 1.11.14!  You really
> should upgrade.
> 
> You need to use a numerical month rather than an alphabetical one:
> "2004-04-01 11:00:00 EST".  Or, even easier, just use "now".

Or even easier still - just drop the date component altogether. HEAD will
resolve to the latest revision on the trunk, regarless of the date. 

Actually, my installation - 1.11.9 client, 1.11.5 server - refuses to allow
both, complaining that -r and -D are mutually exclusive. This doesn't seem
right to me - I tried it using a branch tag, and it still complained; how
would I tag all files on a branch, modified before a particular timestamp?

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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)