Re: how to retrieve sources of day X

André Langhorst wrote: > > These win32 crashes keep me away from doing anything > and apparently nobody can help me with it (quick enough), > so I try to walk as many ways as possible... > > I have got a build from 06-30 (which works perfectly) and I would > like to track down the exakt day and hour from which on > the crashes appear. > It should be easy then to find out what has changed... you can use an option '-D' on cvs checkout and update to specify a certain release date -D date_spec Use the most recent revision no later than date_spec (a single argument, date description specifying a date in the past). A wide variety of date formats are supported, in particular ISO ("1972-09-24 20:05") or Internet ("24 Sep 1972 20:05"). The date_spec is interpreted as being in the local timezone, unless a specific timezone is specified. The specification is ``sticky'' when you use it to make a private copy of a source file; that is, when you get a working file using -D, cvs records the date you specified, so that further updates in the same directory will use the same date (unless you explicitly override it; see the description of the update command). -D is avail­ able with the checkout, diff, history, export, rdiff, rtag, and update commands. Examples of valid date specifications include: 1 month ago 2 hours ago 400000 seconds ago last year -- Harmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de