Re: cvs update

[David H. Thornley]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:
> 
> Eric Siegerman wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote:
> > > Rui Cordeiro wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that 
> > > > are in the repository but not in the working directory.
> > > > I want to update, in one step, only the files that I have checkout.
> > >
> > > Don't pass '-d' to update?
> >
> > That'll prevent fetching of un-checked-out directories, but I
> > know of no way to prevent the fetching of un-checked-out files
> > within a directory that *is* checked out.
> 
> Yeah.  What he said.  :)
> 

Without actually bothering to find out myself whether this would
work or not, how about
cvs update *
?  The * should expand to a list of files in the directory (which
may of course be too long to feed into the command-line arguments),
and so the update should apply only to the existing files.

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