Noel L Yap wrote:
>
> >I
> >don't have a clue as to what -j should do in combination with -C.
>
> It seems you've been more thorough than I have. Looking at it another way, "cvs
> up -C file" should be equivalent to "cvs up -p -r <base-rev> file >file". If
> other flags (eg "-j") were specified, the command should be equivalent to "cvs
> up -p -r <base-rev> file >file; cvs up <other-flags> file".
>
> Noel
Are you sure about '<base-rev>'? From what I've seen so far, -C means 'clean
copy'. (it's not on my 1.10.5 copy, gotta upgrade).
By '<base-rev>', do you mean the revision last checked out, or the current
revision for the current sticky tag?
Also, how do these two scripts differ? (I'm not cvs-guru enough to know if they
do):
#1
rm file
cvs up <all-options> file
#2
cvs up -p -r <base-rev> file >file
cvs up <other-flags> file // other-flags may be empty
And, if it can be done in a script, does it belong in cvs? :-)
Michael
p.s. Trivia question: What does this do? What should it do?
echo 'new file' > file
cvs add file
cvs update -C file
(note that script 1 leaves it missing, script 2 leaves it empty)
If you think 'just give an error, do nothing', then what if I'm
trying to clean up a module, not just a single file?)
