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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