merge updates from HEAD into branch by date

[Chris Nicol]

Hi,

I'm having trouble figuring out the correct syntax for what I want to do.

I want to bring all the modifications in the HEAD branch made between 9 and 11 am on June 9th 2011 into my branch 'branch1'. The modifications were made between tags 'tag11' and 'tag12' on the HEAD branch/trunk.

I have a checked-out copy of 'branch1' and from its root I have run

cvs update -P "-jHEAD:6/9/11 9:00" "-jHEAD:6/9/11 11:00"
and
cvs update -P "-jtag11:6/9/11 9:00" "-jtag12:6/9/11 11:00"
and many other variants.

I've also tried running these on named sub-directories.

My working copy does not get updated with the changes I want.

cvs diff -D "6/9/11 9:00" -D "6/9/11 11:00"
DOES show the changes I want.

I am using an old server (v1.1.17) on Linux and an old client (CVSNT 2.0.51d) on Windows, so I imagine my problem might be due to bugs or incompatibilities, but I would like to know the correct syntax all the same.

Thanks in advance,
Chris Nicol

[Jim Hyslop]

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On 13-09-09 5:09 AM, Chris Nicol wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out the correct syntax for what I want
> to do.

[...]

> I have a checked-out copy of 'branch1' and from its root I have
> run
>
> cvs update -P "-jHEAD:6/9/11 9:00" "-jHEAD:6/9/11 11:00" and cvs
> update -P "-jtag11:6/9/11 9:00" "-jtag12:6/9/11 11:00" and many
> other variants.

Specify *either* a tag *or* a date, not both:

cvs update -P -jtag11 -jtag12

or

cvs update -P "-j6/9/11 9:00" "-j6/9/11 11:00"

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[Chris Nicol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hyslop [mailto:jhysl...@dreampossible.ca]
> Sent: 09 September 2013 18:12
> To: Chris Nicol
> Cc: info...@nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: merge updates from HEAD into branch by date
>
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> On 13-09-09 5:09 AM, Chris Nicol wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble figuring out the correct syntax for what I want to
> > do.
> [...]
>
> > I have a checked-out copy of 'branch1' and from its root I have run
> >
> > cvs update -P "-jHEAD:6/9/11 9:00" "-jHEAD:6/9/11 11:00" and cvs
> > update -P "-jtag11:6/9/11 9:00" "-jtag12:6/9/11 11:00" and many other
> > variants.
>
> Specify *either* a tag *or* a date, not both:
>
> cvs update -P -jtag11 -jtag12
>
> or
>
> cvs update -P "-j6/9/11 9:00" "-j6/9/11 11:00"

Jim,

Thanks for the reply but the date-only option gets this result:
cvs [update aborted]: Numeric join tag 6/9/11 9:00 may not contain a date specifier

The required format seems to be
-jSymbolic_Tag:Date_Specifier

Regards,
Chris Nicol