5320 - client.mk: Need easy way to pull by date.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jonathan Lennox]

This patch allows me to specify a timestamp for cvs checkouts, so I can grab the
"last known good" date from the bonsai page, e.g.:

MOZ_CO_DATE="04/20/99 10:25:49 PDT" gmake -f client.mk checkout

Note that there seem to be some problems if you specify MOZ_CO_BRANCH and
MOZ_CO_DATE simultaneously, and I'm not quite sure how to handle clearing sticky
tags, so this might need a little more work, but for this purpose it works for
me.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Lennox]

Attachment: Patch to make MOZ_CO_DATE work

Comment 2

[Steve Lamm]

You can do this today with the following,

MOZ_CO_FLAGS='-D"04/20/99 10:25:49 PDT" -P' gmake -f client.mk checkout

Is this too gross? I just don't want to add an environment variable to every cvs
flag. I will probably apply to patch, but let me think about it for a little
bit.

Comment 3

[Steve Lamm]

I added it. No big deal. I was just trying to think of a way to make it even
easier to pull by date. It would be cool if the Build Configurator could spit
out an option that is that last known good build. I personally can never
remember how to type in the date formate.

Marking fixed.

Comment 4

[Steve Lamm]

I added pull by date to the Build Configurator:

http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/webtools/build/config.cgi