Re: cvs checkout/update --help?

[Larry Jones]

Tom Cunningham wrote:
>
> Usage:
>   cvs checkout [-ANPRcflnps] [-r rev | -D date] [-d dir]
>     [-j rev1] [-j rev2] [-k kopt] modules...
[...]
> Are -r and -D really mutually exclusive as the help suggests?

Probably not, although it doesn't really make sense to specify them both
unless you're using -r to specify a branch tag.  (If you're running an
old enough release of CVS then they *are* exclusive -- you can get a
newer release from www.cvshome.org.)

Matthew Riechers writes:
> 
> When I do 'cvs co -rSOME_CURRENT_REV -D"today" module', I get no output
> (no dirs created). Each argument given seperately gives the expected
> result. That would imply that they *are* mutually exclusive.

No, if they were mututally exclusive you'd get an error message.  What
that implies is that you specified a revision tag rather than a branch
tag and the date of that revision didn't match the date you specified.

-Larry Jones

Oh, what the heck.  I'll do it. -- Calvin