I don't think putting update -A in .cvsrc would be good option. It will override every update command. also probably give problems when you want to update to some specific version(cvs update -A -r ??), as you did.
As there wouldn't be any sticky tag to files by default, hence normal update should work.
-Rohan
g murkumar wrote:
Thanks Rohan
Would it make send then to add update -A in my .cvsrc file. Since it would normally make sense to expect the cvs
upadte command to freshen up the files in the
directories with the latest revisions of the file
..right?
I mean thats what cvs update is normally used for.
Please advise.
Thanks again
--- Rohan Nandode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You would have to use -A flag while updating the file. the command would be $cvs update -A uartsw.c
The reason is, when you update with -r, a sticky tag
is attached to the file. you can see it in "cvs status " command.
The sticky tag information is stored in CVS/Entries
in the local checkout. So even it you delete the file the cvs
will update on the sticky tag version.
-A option removes any sticky tag present and updates with latest version.
-Rohan
g murkumar wrote:
Hello
I am having cvs update a directory with the latest
version of a certain file. This is the sequence of event
1)I checkout out a old version of the file(i
needed to
compile an old build) cvs update -r 1.1 uartsw.c this command worked fine, I got the r1.1 revision 2)I then wanted to revert back to the latest version(r1.4) of the file. So I deleted the file uartsw.c and did cvs update The output was: $cvs update cvs update . cvs update: Updating . M demo.hex cvs update: warning: uartsw.c was lost U uartsw.c
BUT to my suprise the CVS put back that OLD revision(r1.1) of the file that i checked out in
step
'1' . I expected it to put revision r1.4 (the
latest
revision) Accdg to the manual: 'cvs update', updates the directory with the most recent commited
revision(which
in my case is r1.4). But it didnt do that in my
case
it put the old r1.1. Also just as a sidenote I
remember doing cvs checkout -r 1.1 uartsw.c I mistakedly thought this was the way to retrieve
an
old revision of a file. But then i saw the website
and
did step 1(cvs update -r 1.1 uartsw.c) instead.
Did my
cvs checkout command have anything to do with the problem? thanks
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