[parisc-linux] i hate cvs

[Paul Bame]

> 
> someone want to tell me how to get a copy of our source tree from, say,
> May 19th?  cvs up -D'19 May 2001' is not the answer because it gets
> files off the vendor branch which is useless.

Well there appear to be some interesting CVS "features" here which
are independent of the magic safe-cvsimport stuff we've done:

$ date > e
$ cvs add e
cvs add: scheduling file `e' for addition
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
$ cvs commit -mno-message e
RCS file: /tmp/cvs/b/e,v
done
Checking in e;
/tmp/cvs/b/e,v  <--  e
initial revision: 1.1
done
$ cvs up -rHEAD -Dnow e
cvs update: e is no longer in the repository
$ cvs up -Dnow e
U e
$ cvs -v
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)
 
So it looks like specifying date and HEAD branch (alias "trunk") together is 
hosed (other date+branches i checked work fine).  If it looks easy I'll submit 
this to the CVS folks.

I can fix our repository so willy's initial command works properly (without
the -rHEAD I proposed) by commiting an unchanged 1.2 revision for certain 
files.
They will probably require back-dating if we want retroactive date-based
check-outs to work and that will probably require me to have exclusive access
to pehc for a bit.  Another way to solve the problem is to un-import 2.2.4
from the vendor branch (untested but I think it'll work).  Suggestions?

	-P