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"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