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Authored by: greed on Apr 22, '03 01:51:12PM

I suppose this really belongs as a separate hint, but what the heck.

Once you have something checked out with CVS, you can find out what versions are available. Examine an "important" file, like "README", "configure", "Makefile" or "Makefile.in". It just has to be a file that is likely to have been around for a while.

Now do:
cvs status -v README

This will show the "tags" available on that file. Now you can re-set your code to a named tag by doing:
cvs update -rTAGNAME

If you knew the tag name in advance, you could have used "-rTAGNAME" on the "cvs co" command instead. You can usually find the tags in the web interface, in one of the log or history displays.



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