Re: [Savannah-users] Advice on checkout

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:55:12AM +0900, d.henman wrote:
> 
> I currently use 
> 
>       cvs -d:ext:address@hidden/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
> 
> to download emacs cvs source code.

This doesn't work, this references computer hosting the download area
- not the CVS repositories.


> I would like to download a snapshort of cvs in the past.  In my case
> June 17, 2007 source snapshot of emacs.
> 
> How can I do this?
> 
> Please cc any replies to me.  I am not a member of the list and do indeed 
> wish get to replies.

Something like this should do (option -D):
cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs co -D 2007-06-17 emacs

Cheers :)

-- 
Sylvain