Re: Accidental -kb option used when adding a text file

[Larry Jones]

Duncan Sommerville writes:
> 
> cvs admin -kv <myfile.txt>

That should be -kkv.

> Typically you need to do an 'update' afterwards for the change to be
> reflected in the workspace, however in my version of CVS (1.10) changing
> from a -kb to -kv needed me to redo the 'checkout' operation before the
> change was evident in the workspace...

A simple update isn't sufficient because CVS doesn't distinguish between
-k options that came from the repository and -k options that came from
the command line.  You either need to do update -A or update -kkv.

-Larry Jones

I kind of resent the manufacturer's implicit assumption
that this would amuse me. -- Calvin