[cvsnt] Re: cvs update -j question

[Tony Hoyle]

keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> Ok, maybe I'm really really stupid here, but why does this:
>     cvs update -j "b211:5 minutes ago" -j b211
> work when I am in my HEAD sandbox, and this:
>     cvs update -j "HEAD:5 minutes ago" -j HEAD
> NOT work when I am in my b211 sandbox?
> 
> The application for this is that we make changes in head, and then wish 
> to push them back to our release branch.  The -j merge would make this 
> really easy - update, commit, go to other sandbox, merge, commit - but 
> when I am using HEAD this doesn't work.  See, these are multi-file 
> updates; i could manually do each file based on the revision number, but 
> that takes a long time and is a pain.  And no, I don't really feel like 
> tagging each commit... that makes my history commands take a bloody long 
> time.
> 
> Suggestions?

Just let mergepoints do all the work - cvs update -j HEAD.

The whole "5 minutes ago" stuff is going to be prone to error, and is 
unnecessary.

Tony