[nycbug-talk] using cvs

Marc Spitzer mspitzer
Wed Nov 23 22:43:30 EST 2005


On 11/23/05, George Georgalis <george at galis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:20:43AM -0500, Ray Lai wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:22:23AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> >> I changed release tags and now I have a bunch of these...
> >>
> >> cvs update: move away contrib/sys/arch/i386/dev/athhal-elf-o.uue; it is in the way
> >> C contrib/sys/arch/i386/dev/athhal-elf-o.uue
> >>
> >> After much experimentation, I see two options, capture stdout, and
> >> use it to script the removal of files in the way (there are a lot)
> >> or remove my complete archive and checkout again.
> >>
> >> Just to confirm, is there really no way to overwrite these files
> >> with cvs commands?
> >
> >I think you're looking for cvs up -C.
>
> In this case that doesn't work. Presumably, because ./CVS files
> don't have record of the files, update thinks I created them and
> won't overwrite. ...well I don't really know what is going on but
> I did try -C...
>

nuke it, takes less time then talking about it.  Unless you have a
very slow link.

marc

> // George
>
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