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RE: Anon cvs broken?
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Andrew Haley |
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RE: Anon cvs broken? |
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Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:45:04 +0100 |
Mark Wielaard writes:
> Hi Jeroen,
>
> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 13:37 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> > I don't understand, isn't "cvs update" supposed to get the new files
> > as well?
>
> New files yes, but not new directories...
> I don't know why anyone thought that was good default behavior.
It's the only possible default behaviour. CVS supports modules, so
that it's possible to check out a subset of a tree, and this is very
useful. When you do "cvs update", it does not check out every module,
just the directories you already checked out.
> In my ~/.cvrc I have the following to get more sane cvs behavior:
This is not sane bahavior in general, just for trees that don't have
many modules.
Andrew.