[Plplot-devel] I need some cvs advice

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

I am trying to track down a bug by seeing when it first occurred in CVS.

So I naively tried the following:

cvs checkout -D '15 days ago' plplot

The command did get the version from 15 days ago, but in addition grabbed
all the old removed files as well which makes the local tree unusable. For
example, I now have plstream.h in two separate directories and our
configuration uses the bad (removed) version.

The documentation under info cvs implied that cvs kept track of removed
files, so why is the above command putting them into my tree?  Is this a bug
in the CVS server at sourceforge?

Anyhow, if anybody knows how to get a clean snapshot from n days ago (where
I will probably be doing a binary search on n), please let me know.

Alan

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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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