[cvsnt] Re: cvs update -j question

[keith d. zimmerman]

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> In that case you can use commit IDs (you can probably setup a way to do 
> this automatically depending on your setup).
> 
> eg.
> 
> cvs update -j @<92f40fd1200c41b @92f40fd1200c41b
> 
> (OTOH I'm not sure whether that syntax made it into the 2.0.51d release 
> so it may not be useful for you just yet - the @< is fairly recent.)
> 
> The problem with things like "5 minutes ago" is someone could commit an 
> unrelated fix while you're typing the command.
> 
> Tony
> 

and the @< syntax means "the commit id immediatly proceding the one I 
type here?"