[cvsnt] Join with date tags

[Tony Hoyle]

"Mathieu Miller" <mmiller at jamdat.ca> wrote in message 
news:mailman.331.1076539403.472.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a reason why cvs refuses to accept date as join arguments for the 
> update - j command?
>
> If I look a tag.c i get:
>
> [...]
>
> if (isdigit ((unsigned char) join_tag[0]))
>     error (1, 0,
>    "Numeric join tag %s may not contain a date specifier",
>    join_tag);
>
> [...]
>
That's not what it's saying.

It's saying you can't say 'cvs update -j 1.24:yesterday' as that doesn't 
make any sense.

You can of course still say 'cvs update -j my_branch:yesterday'.

Tony