Branches and Dates

[Mark . Hewitt]

I thought I understood this, but the evidence is against me ...

We have a situation where we need to see the state of a branch
at a point of time in the past.  Problem is that if I checkout
the branch and then update ... -D date ... what I appear to get
is the state of the module at that date with the branches collapsed.
For example, a file that existed only on the trunk mysteriously
appears in the branch if I use a date after the time it was added
to the trunk.

So what are the interactions between branches and dates?

#!/mjh