John McNamara writes: > > >If the tag doesn't exist at all, CVS assumes that you've made a mistake > >and so doesn't do anything. After all, if the tag doesn't exist at all, > >why are you specifying it with -f instead of just checking out the head? > > So what is the intended function of the -f option?
My understanding is that the -f option was intended to deal with the case where most of the files you're checking out/updating have the specified tag, but a few (typically newly added) files do not. It was, as far as I know, never intended to be a convoluted way of checking out/ updating an entire set of files to the head revision. -Larry Jones Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
