Re: update -l -r brnch dir doesn't seem to do anything

[Mike Ayers]

CHARLES HART, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK wrote:
> I've used CVS for a bit over 24 hours, having used ClearCase for the past 16
> years, and I am trying to get a handle on how NOT to get a whole directory
> dumped into my work area.
>
> We have a directory with approximately 1,500 source files in it.  (No unfortunat
> ely, I can't make a smaller  directory, since this is only one of 475 directorie
> s I have to worry about).  I have figured out that I can start with an empty
> work area and say
> $ cvs update -r brnch bmf/foo.x
> and just get one file moved into the directory. But, if I start with an empty
> work area and I want to create a new file in the big directory, I can't get CVS
> to give me an empty place to work.  (At least the cvs add command refuses to
> work in anything other than a work directory blessed by CVS).  I figured out
> that I can do an mkdir and cvs add, and cvs correctly notices that the new
> directory is redundant, but shouldn't "update -l -r brnch dir" work too?  -CTH

	You understand the problem correctly.  To get your directory 
"blessed", just check out a single file in it - use `cvs update -r 
brnch bmf/foo.x`, then delete foo.x, make your file (in the bmf 
directory), and check it in.  While updating foo.x, CVS should create 
all the CVS/* files it needs to do the add.


/|/|ike