[Python-Dev] [Patch #101055] Cookie.py

[Michael Hudson]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@beopen.com> writes:

> Barry A. Warsaw writes:
>  > I don't think that's true, because the file won't have the tag
>  > information in it.  That could be a problem in and of itself, but I
>  > dunno.
> 
>   The confusion isn't from the tags, but the dates; if the ,v was
> created 2 years ago, asking for the python tree as of a year ago
> (using -D <date>) will include the file, even though it wasn't part of
> our repository then.  Asking for a specific tag (using -r <tag>) will
> properly not include it unless there's a matching tag there.

Is it feasible to hack the dates in the ,v file so that it looks like
all the revisions happened between say

2000.08.19.10.50.00

and

2000.08.19.10.51.00

?  This probably has problems too, but they will be more subtle...

Cheers,
M.

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