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Re: Error during merge


From: Tyler
Subject: Re: Error during merge
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:53:01 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:52:56PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> I'm merging branchY into branchX via
> 
>       > cvs -nq update -j b_branchX -j b_branchY proj
> 
> (I use the -nq so it does do the update yet ) and I get 
> 
> retrieving revision 1.2.4.2
> retrieving revision 1.2
> Merging differences between 1.2.4.2 and 1.2 into file1.cpp
> cvs update: file1.cpp: No such file or directory

cvs -n does not play nice with merges. I think this is because -n
prevents cvs from doing anything, including creating the temp files it
needs to do its merges.

Instead of the -n, do the merge in a nice, safe sandbox.

tyler




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