Re: Newbie: update vs. checkout

[Frederic Brehm]

At 01:31 PM 5/26/2004, Irving Kimura wrote:
> the difference between update and checkout

Checkout creates a brand new sandbox (working directory) from some version 
of files in the repository. Usually this is the HEAD version, but you can 
specify others.

Update makes the files in an existing sandbox correspond to some version of 
files in the repository merged with local changes if necessary. Usually 
this is the HEAD version of some branch, but you can specify others.

I think that checkout can act like update (in WinCVS only?) if it is run 
from an existing sandbox. Ignore that behavior. It's too confusing.

Fred


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