[cvsnt] Re: cvs update -j question

[keith d. zimmerman]

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> 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.
> 

no, that'll never do.  I don't want *all* of the changes on head, just 
the ones i committed.  HEAD changes a lot, but when there's a bug fix 
that must be pushed back to a release version, we want only that fix.

thanks,
-kz