[nycbug-talk] using cvs

[George Georgalis]

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...

// George


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