Re: CVS won't update with latest revision

[g murkumar]

Thanks Rohan
Would it make send then to add 
update -A in my .cvsrc file. 
Since it would normally make sense to expect the cvs
upadte command to freshen up the files in the
directories with the latest revisions of the file
..right?
I mean thats what cvs update is normally used for.
Please advise.
Thanks again

--- Rohan Nandode <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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