Re: cvs update

[Martin Jørgensen]

Pierre Asselin wrote:
> Martin J?rgensen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> It's also easier to pull in the newest release when you discard
> your uncommitted changes.  From the command line, just remove the
> file and do a plain update.  From the Tortoise GUI, right-click
> the red file, pick "CVS" / "Update Special" and select "clean copy".

You wrote a lot of things about tortoiseCVS, but as I wrote earlier I 
want to know what's happening behind the interface and therefore I'm 
working on a hp unix system and want to learn the command line arguments.

> If you want to discard uncommitted changes for *all* files it's
> even simpler.  Wipe out your entire local tree and check out a new
> one from scratch.

I also do that sometimes, but if it's just for one file then it's a 
little silly to delete the whole directory tree and do a checkout again.

> > Yesterday 
> > I deleted this "#1.3#" file and when I wanted to commit some changes, it 
> > complained about missing this file...
>
>
> I don't understand what you are saying.  The "#1.3#" file is just
> a backup for your private enjoyment and cvs shouldn't miss it.

Well, it did... Perhaps there was a conflict or something? Usually cvs 
update also just overwrites my local files as I want i to, but I don't 
know what I did since it made a new revision 1.4 and created a file 
(something with #1.3#)...

> Can you paste the exact error message the next time it happens ?

Yes, I will... Too bad that didn't write down the exact problem when it 
happened, but I'll do that next time...


Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Martin Jørgensen

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