Re: updating to a particular date on a branch

[Larry Jones]

chiranjeeb_buragohain writes:
> 
> I am trying to reconstruct the state of a repository on a particular 
> date on a branch.   If I check out the branch in a particular 
> directory and then run
> 
> cvs update -D "2 Feb 2002" 
> 
> inside the directory, I get the trunk as of 2 Feb 2002, not the 
> branch.   Any help on this will be highly appreciated.   Thanks

You need to specify both the branch and the date:

        cvs up -r mybranch -D '2002-02-02'

-Larry Jones

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