From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 27 08:45:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16601 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:45:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16500; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:45:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA27422; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:19:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA04116; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:19:55 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:19:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199802271619.JAA04116@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eivind Eklund Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: cvs update fails In-Reply-To: <19980227131814.17813@follo.net> References: <19980227113347.35288@iii.co.uk> <19980227131814.17813@follo.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Eivind Eklund writes: > On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 11:33:47AM +0000, nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 02:39:04PM -0500, Charles Owens wrote: > > > setenv CVSROOT /usr/cvs #pointing at my local CVS repository > > > cd /usr/bigsrc/RELENG_2_2 > > > cvs update > > > > cvs update -Pd > > > > It won't fix the problem you're having, but it's a good idea anyway. > > .cvsrc > > It won't fix the problem you're having, but it's a good idea anyway. > > (Translation: The -Pd options should usually be specified in the > .cvsrc file of the user, so 'cvs update' should be the correct thing > to do.) FWIW, CVS has recently been fixed to 'Do The Right Thing' when checking out new directories on branches when -d is given. As many know already, previously it would check out the directory on the HEAD (even if the directory above was a 'sticky branch'. It now checks out directories that only exist on the branch. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message