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A step by step guide to using CVS
Authored by: strale on Dec 21, '03 12:33:35PM

>you can check out the "project" as it was on any date.
No, you can't with cvs - Versions are per-file not per-commit, but Subversion can (or will).

>just try to avoid large binary files, as the diffs will take a while.
cvs doesn't diff binary files, but avoiding binary files in cvs is always a good idea.



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A step by step guide to using CVS
Authored by: kps on Dec 21, '03 01:29:31PM
Yes, CVS version numbers are per file – use cvs tag for project versions – but it records the time of each commit operation, so you can indeed extract the state at a given time, e.g. cvs checkout -D date project

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