On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Eugene Kramer wrote:

> [...]
> cvs rdiff -s -D 01/01/1970 -r $branch "$@"  2>&1 \
>     | sed -e 's/File.//' \
>                   -e 's/is new; current revision./      (/' \
>                   -e 's/(\([0-9][\.0-9]*\)/(\1)/' \
>                   -e 's/cvs server: Diffing/cvs server: Listing/'

This is a really nice trick.  I've been looking for such a feature for a
long time.  But when I use the date "01/01/1970" as shown above, I will
get the error message:

%> cvs rdiff -s -D 01/01/1970 -r HEAD Tools
cvs [rdiff aborted]: Can't parse date/time: 01/01/1970

with cvs 1.10.5 _and_ 1.10.8 on different systems.

"cvs rdiff -s -D 01/02/1970 -r HEAD Tools" or later dates seems to work.
                    ^^
Does anybody know if this is a bug or a feature ?

Lars

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