RE: Newbie: update vs. checkout

[Christopher.Fouts]

"cvs checkout" means you want to check out the files that you need from
the CVS repository into your workspace, or sandbox. These files are
essentially
your working copies of the files in the repository. Any changes you make
to
these files from now on will only exist on YOUR sandbox, NOT the
repository.
You commit your changes to the repository by doing a "cvs commit."

Ok so far?

Now say one of the files you checked out (I assume you know what this
means
now :) is file.cpp. But later on someone else checked this out, made
some changes,
and committed the changes in the repository. Now YOUR copy of file.cpp
does NOT
the other person's changes correct? Now to update your copy with the
other person's
changes, you do a "cvs update." So now when you do a "cvs commit", you
include
BOTH the other person's changes AND your changes. If you do a "cvs
commit" without
doing a "cvs update," you will have eclipsed the other person's changes.

Make sense?

-chris

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Irving Kimura
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:31 PM
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Subject: Newbie: update vs. checkout





I'm sorry for this very stupid question, but after spending a lot of
time reading the CVS documentation, I still don't understand what
*exactly* is the difference between update and checkout. Could someone
explain it to me?

Thanks!

Irv

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