Re: shooting one's self in the foot.

[Eric Siegerman]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:16:21PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> >      cvs -d release <something>
> > 
> >      cvs checkout <something>               --- Since other developers may 
> > have changed (e.g deleted)
> >                                         file/directory structure.
> 
> There's no need to release and re-checkout, just update with -d.

-dP actually, to pick up deleted directories.

Of course, that requires you to put something in any directories
that are intentionally empty, since CVS can't tell the difference
between those and ones that have been deleted.

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