Larry Jones wrote:
Thanks to your help I am getting closer to the solution, but I now
realized I actually wanted more than I asked for...
> > However, if I change the question to checkout "testdir", which obviously
> > is a directory instead of a file, this doesn't seem to work. Perhaps
> > you have a solution for that as well? "cvs update testdir" doesn't do
> > anything, not even an error message.
>
> That's because update doesn't create directories by default -- you have
> to use the -d option.
I tried that, but ran into a new problem:
cvs update -d dirname
Gets "dirname" and all files inside of it. But I only want to get one
file: dirname/Makefile. I tried adding "-l":
cvs update -d -l dirname
That didn't help, it still obtained all files inside "dirname" (I
actually expected this to work, is this a bug?).
Trying to obtain the specific file directly, with the "-d" option:
cvs update -d dirname/Makefile
This doesn't work. If "dirname" doesn't exist I get an error stating
that. Thus the "-d" option doesn't seem to work here!
If I create "dirname" by hand I get "cannot open CVS/Entries for
reading: No such file or directory". Apparently the directory really
needs to be created by cvs.
Hopefully you have an answer to this one!
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