(sorry about previous reply - a slip of the finger) "Paul Gelderblom (ptok)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I would use > cvs -n update <topdir> > this will give you the output of cvs update and show you which files would > be replaced locally during a "real" update, but it will *not* do it. > > Having a quick look, I did not find a way to issue this command via the GUI > of Tortoise or WinCvs . You may need to use a command line CVS for this > (which you have installed if you use Tortoise) > <snip>
thanks to both for the reply. Of course, having successfully got the list of files to delete from the command line client, I realised I can't delete them using tortoise unless they exist in my workspace anyway :-)) I must admit I find the namespace client very easy to use, but it never really occured to me before that this is a fundamental problem with a namespace client - if the file isn't in the workspace, you can't do anything with it. Andy _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
