I have a big project with branches. All development is concentrated in the branch.
I want to get the state of this branch at some time ago, but can’t
cvs up -r branch_name -D 2010-05-01
gives me (in cvs status Makefile) the sticky tag, but the newest version of file, not at 2010-05-01
cvs up -D 2010-05-01 -r branch_name
ignores a tag and updated to that Date of the HEAD
cvs up -r branch_name:2010-05-01
doesn’t work too, it ignores date and updates to current state of branch.
cvs update -PdC -r BRANCH-NAME-HERE -D "Saturday, May 1, 2010 0:00:00 AM UTC"If you know the time, add that…