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Date:      Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:44:24 +0100 (CEST)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: cvsup question...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990401234424.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990401094521.jobaldwi@vt.edu>

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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?

Is 

*default delete 

present in your cvsup file?

That one functions like cvs -P which prunes old/removed files/directories.

HTH,

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven     <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; 
asmodai(at)wxs.nl        The idea does not replace the work...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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