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Re: have finished reading http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
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Sergei Organov |
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Re: have finished reading http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html |
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31 May 2005 21:50:38 +0400 |
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address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:
> Sergei Organov writes:
> >
> > How is it different from update -A *without* copying anything on top of
> > it? My experience is that update -A would perform regular merge of
> > current changes into the head version. Am I missing something?
>
> You're missing the fact that copying an old file over top of the current
> file will wipe out any subsequent changes that were merged into the
> current file by the update.
Ah, sorry, I forgot it supposed to be "revert changes" operation, then
definitely the correct way is to use -j trick. And copying files over
CVS-managed files is almost always a wrong idea indeed, especially for
newbies.
--
Sergei.
Re: have finished reading http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html however, .., Alex Liberman, 2005/05/30