Re: CVS won't update with latest revision

[Rohan Nandode]

You would have to use -A flag while updating the file.
the command would be
$cvs update -A uartsw.c

The reason is, when you update with -r, a sticky tag is attached to the 
file. you can see it in "cvs status " command.
The sticky tag information is stored in CVS/Entries in the local 
checkout. So even it you delete the file the cvs will update on the 
sticky tag version.

-A option removes any sticky tag present and updates with latest version.

-Rohan

g murkumar wrote:
> Hello
> I am having cvs update a directory with the latest
> version of a certain file. 
> This is the sequence of event
> 1)I checkout out a old version of the file(i needed to
> compile an old build)
> cvs update -r 1.1 uartsw.c
> this command worked fine, I got the r1.1 revision
> 2)I then wanted to revert back to the latest
> version(r1.4) of the file. So  I deleted the file
> uartsw.c and did cvs update
> The output was:
> $cvs update
> cvs update .
> cvs update: Updating .
> M demo.hex
> cvs update: warning: uartsw.c was lost
> U uartsw.c
>
> BUT to my suprise the CVS put back that OLD
> revision(r1.1) of the file that i checked out in step
> '1' . I expected it to put revision r1.4 (the latest
> revision)
> Accdg to the manual: 'cvs update',  updates the
> directory with the most recent commited revision(which
> in my case is r1.4). But it didnt do that in my case
> it put the old r1.1. Also just as a sidenote I
> remember doing 
> cvs checkout -r 1.1 uartsw.c 
> I mistakedly thought this was the way to retrieve an
> old revision of a file. But then i saw the website and
> did step 1(cvs update -r 1.1 uartsw.c) instead. Did my
> cvs checkout command have anything to do with the
> problem?
> thanks
>
>
>
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