John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:18:29PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> You need to use `update -d' to pull new directories.
>
> Why isn't this the default behaviour? Why would anyone not wish to
> pull new directories if there were any?
The CVS manual says this:
`-d'
Create any directories that exist in the repository if they're
missing from the working directory. Normally, `update' acts only
on directories and files that were already enrolled in your
working directory.
This is useful for updating directories that were created in the
repository since the initial checkout; but it has an unfortunate
side effect. If you deliberately avoided certain directories in
the repository when you created your working directory (either
through use of a module name or by listing explicitly the files
and directories you wanted on the command line), then updating
with `-d' will create those directories, which may not be what you
want.
I'm not sure this is a good reason. Personally, I always type
`up -d', because I've been screwed by this enough times in the
past that I can't forget anymore.
--
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feature-poor toys."
--Scott Adams
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