Re: [Fwd: cvs checkout for packaging]

You can always use "cvs co -D YYYY-MM-DD" to retrieve sources as of a 
chosen date.

At 11:22 PM 1/15/2008 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>* Jason Thomas wrote:
> >Umm, okay, but if you look at this link from the main page it shows a
> >release version, which was released on 6 November 2007.  Not that long
> >ago.  Doesn't that mean I can check out a "release"?
> >
> >I want to package a new version for Debian.  Can you tell me the correct
> >way to get the source? Will I have to use a version number like
> >cvs20080116 or something?
>
>The "release date" is the only version management we've got, we do not
>have points where we consider the content of the repository "stable" or
>"unstable", any commit essentially makes a new "release". There are no
>branches or tags, all you could do is check out specific versions of the
>individual files, or the whole set from a specific date.
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