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

[Harald Kucharek]

Chris Hirsch wrote:
> 
> I knew it had to be easy ;-) Any idea on how to do that through the WinCVS
> GUI?
> 
> Thanks!


Since WinCVS 1.1b17, the "Update settings" panel, which comes up when you
want to do a Update, has a checkbox "Get the clean copy".
That's it.

Harald

> 
> > > 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.
> >
> 


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