Re: cvs update

[Martin Jørgensen]

Jim Hyslop wrote:
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> Martin Jørgensen wrote:
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> > Actually I'm the only user on that project, but I'm working on several
> > machines... report.log is a file which is not important. I don't care
> > about that file (generated by latex).
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> Then why are you keeping it in CVS? Log files are generally not useful
> items to keep version-controlled.

Windows drag-and-drop.

> > I thought committing meant: Merge my work. And updating meant: Get
> > changes since the last time and update all local files.
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> No. Committing means "take what I have locally, and put an exact replica
> of this file into the repository."
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> Merging is part of updating: "get any change from the repository, and if
> someone else has changed the file, incorporate their changes into mine."

Oh, finally I understand... So there's no way that update could create a 
new version on the server... I'm glad to hear that.

> > If I didn't delete this file report.log, how else could I manually fix
> > the problem with merging? It's giving me some kind of list (diff I
> > think) which I don't understand because I've never worked with diff
> > before...
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> 'update -C' will fetch a fresh copy without merging. However, you should
> specify exactly which files to do this to, otherwise you could lose your
> local changes. Well, they won't be permanently lost: the original file
> will be renamed to the '.#' file name.

Very nice comments... It all makes sense suddenly. You know, most of the 
time I *want* to overwrite my local garbage... Actually I hate those .# 
filenames... Any way to avoid them, when I'm sure that I don't want them?

> Either that, or as I said, 'cvs remove' the log file and don't bother
> tracking it.

I was also interested in finding out how to resolve the conflict 
supposing that the file actually was important.... Something about this 
diff-utility, right?


Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Martin Jørgensen

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