Re: When do files expire in CVS repositry ?
- From: Junichi Saito <j saito wanadoo fr>
- To: Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>
- cc: Gnome Mailing List <gnome-list gnome org>, recipient list not shown: ;
- Subject: Re: When do files expire in CVS repositry ?
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:07:44 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Martin Baulig wrote:
>Things do never "expire" in the repository.
>
>Of cause you can't go further back in time than the time the initial
>import of a module was made.
>
>For instance, doing a
>
> cvs update -D "02/03/98 23:00 GMT" gnome-libs
>
>should bring your gnome-libs back to Feb 3 this year but a
>
> cvs update -D "02/03/98 23:00 GMT" libgtop
>
>will fail since this module was imported end of May this year.
>
>But your -D "1998-1202 23:00" isn't a valid date for CVS - you should
>write it as -D "02/12/98 23:00 GMT" (you mean Feb 12 ?).
I transcribed incorrectly the date format. It was -D "1998-12-02 23:00".
>To find out when a module was imported into CVS you first need to find
>one file in it that was added by this initial import and not at a later
>time - for instance ChangeLog, configure.in the top-level Makefile.am etc.
>Then do a "cvs log" on this file and look at the date of its first
>revision.
>Another way is doing a "cvs update -r 1.1.1.1" in it - this should give
>you the module as it was after its initial import.
I see now I completely misunderstood the meaning of the message. The
exact one is :
cvs server: <file name> is no longer in the repository
It is this "no longer" that misled me while the message means in fact
there are in my CVS source many files added after 2 Dec 1998, for
example, gnome-libs/gnome-data/mime-magic, added on 3rd Dec 1998.
Thank you for the clear explanation.
junichi
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