RE: How to "check out" newest code and overwrite everything else?

[Chris Hirsch]

I knew it had to be easy ;-) Any idea on how to do that through the WinCVS
GUI?

Thanks!

> > Hey all...I was wondering how to "check out" the newest version
> of a file
> > and instead of CVS trying to merge the differences if there is
> a conflict
> > have it just completely overwrite the file instead. Is there a way to do
> > this short of just deleting the file?
>
> There's an option '-C' to cvs update which overwrites existing files.
> They are kept as .#FILE.REVISION, though, according to the manual.
>
> norbert.
>