Re: [Plplot-devel] I need some cvs advice

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > Note, by chance I had some snapshots lying around that gave me the clues
 > I needed for the debugging.  But I am still quite interested in why
 > 
 > cvs checkout -D '15 days ago' plplot
 > 
 > doesn't give me a clean snapshot for the date specified since it is likely
 > I would like to get date-specified snapshots from CVS in the future.

I'm not really sure, but I've seen something like it before.  The best
explanation I can think of is that some cvs versions don't handle file
deletion correctly.  I had a similar problem in a different cvs repository
some time ago.  There were some very old files in a repository I use that were
in the cvs Attic and clearly removed (from the log entries) but that showed up
on a -D style extraction.  When I looked at the files in the repository, they
showed 'state Exp' instead of "state dead" like they should have.  After
changing the most recent state entry to "dead" like they should have been,
the -D option worked fine.

We really need direct access to the repository. :(

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)