Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:05:44 -0800 (PST) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about cvs(1) Message-ID: <20001110010544.388C91F28@static.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20001109183355.B254@parish> "from Mark Ovens at Nov 9, 2000 06:33:55 pm"
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> Further investigation revealed that share/ was missing in /usr/www. I
> checked that it was in my repo, then ran:
>
> cvs update -P www
>
> but it didn't check it out. I then used
>
> cvs checkout www
>
> and this worked (and updated some other stuff as well). I've read the
> cvs(1) manpage (several times) and I am certain that ``checkout'' is used
> for creating the tree initially and then ``update'' should maintain the
> tree, including checking out new files/dirs, deleting ones that have been
> removed from the repo, and updating changed files/dirs.
>
> So why did ``update'' fail to check out www/share? I realize that I
> may
Becuase unless otherwise specified, 'update' goes through every
directory *in the checked out copy* and looks for new files. It
doesn't look for new directories in the respository. From cvs(1):
Use the -d option to create any directories that
exist in the repository if they're missing from the
working directory. (Normally, update acts only on
directories and files that were already enrolled in
your working directory.)
So, instead of `cvs update -P www`, you would do `cvs update -Pd www`.
As to why checkout didn't get share/ in the first place, I do not
know.
Hope this helps
--
Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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