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Date:      Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:22:42 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users), plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject:   Re: Questions about the CVS and CTM 
Message-ID:  <199608060622.IAA12761@grumble.grondar.za>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> : > What I did was 'cvs checkout src'. Then I get a copy of src, and I can
> : > do a 'make world' in it. I can do 'cvs update' in the future, right?
> : 
> : Right.
> 
> cvs update won't grab new directories that appear from time to time.
> You'll need to do cvs checkout src for that from time to time still.
> However, it is effectively an update on an already checked out tree,
> so it isn't as expensive as the original checkout.

cvs update -Pd

will do this.

-P prunes empty directories.
-d creates new ones.

M
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