Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 23:46:55 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: CVSup question.... Message-ID: <XFMail.990408234655.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990408144601.jdp@polstra.com>
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On 08-Apr-99 John Polstra wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> Sorry to bother you directly, > > No problem! > >>> On 01-Apr-99 John Baldwin wrote: >>> >>>> I have a cvsup question. I use CVSup to update a local copy of >>>> the CVS repository on one of my machines. In order to avoid a >>>> really big hit the first time I supped, I tar and gzip'd a copy of >>>> the repository off of a machine at work and ftp'd to my machine. >>>> Then I extracted it and fired up cvsup. It works for the most >>>> part, but not always. Here's teh problem, it doesn't delete any >>>> of those files from the original tarball when they are removed >>>> from the repository because it didn't create my local copies of >>>> the files, and it is courteous enough to not delete them in case >>>> I am making local changes or something. However, I'm not making >>>> local changes and want to override this behavior if possible. Any >>>> suggestions on how to get my source tree really up-to-date? > > To find and eliminate the extraneous files, check out Joseph Koshy's > "cvsupchk" program in the contrib subdirectory of the CVSup-16.0 > distribution. This fixed it. Thanks! > For other hints about maintaining local modifications, check the FAQ > at <http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/>. > > To keep CVSup from touching certain files even though they "belong" > to it, read about "refuse files" in cvsup(1). > > I hope this helps. If it addresses your question well enough, then > perhaps you should quote it back to the -questions list as a > follow-up to your original question there. Maybe it will help > somebody else. Done, as you can see. :) > John --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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