Re: Accidental -kb option used when adding a text file

[Steve Greenland]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:25:23PM +0000, Duncan Sommerville wrote:
> cvs admin -kv <myfile.txt>
> 
> Typically you need to do an 'update' afterwards for the change to
> be reflected in the workspace, however in my version of CVS (1.10)
> changing from a -kb to -kv needed me to redo the 'checkout' operation
> before the change was evident in the workspace...

I think the problem is that the -k options are "sticky", so that a
simple update doesn't reset to the repository (cvs can't tell that the
-kb came from the repository, vs. a 'cvs co -kb' command.) You could
also probably do 'cvs update -A' to clear the stickiness, although that
would also undo any other sticky properties, e.g. tags.

Steve