RE: Updating from parent directory

[Craig Dickson]

Actually, after playing with it a little more today, I think i can see what
the issue is. From the parent directory, the following command is
successful:

        cvs update -r B1_0 -d -P B1_0

This updates the contents of the B1_0 sub-directory with the latest
revisions of files form the B1_0 branch.

However the following command does not work:

        cvs update -r MAIN -d -P MAIN

I get the following error:

        cvs [server aborted]: no such tag MAIN


Of course there is no real need to pass the -r MAIN argument, since it will
default to this, but this means I need to have logic in my script to act
differently depending on if it is the MAIN branch or another branch.

Am I doing something wrong, or is it normal not to be able to refer to the
MAIN branch just like any other branch?

Craig

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> > I would like to be able to run the update command on a particular
> > subdirectory (ie. branch) without having to go into that 
> directory to do
> > it. Is there a way? I keep getting errors on the command 
> line with the
> > various permutations of arguments I have attempted so far.
> 
> ``cvs up <dir>'' should work -- what error do you get?
> 
> -Larry Jones
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