Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:44:24 +0100 (CEST) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cvsup question... Message-ID: <XFMail.990401234424.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990401094521.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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On 01-Apr-99 John Baldwin wrote: > I have a cvsup question. I use CVSup to update a local copy of the CVS > repository on one of my machines. In order to avoid a really big hit the > first time I supped, I tar and gzip'd a copy of the repository off of a > machine at work and ftp'd to my machine. Then I extracted it and fired > up cvsup. It works for the most part, but not always. Here's teh problem, > it doesn't delete any of those files from the original tarball when they > are removed from the repository because it didn't create my local copies > of the files, and it is courteous enough to not delete them in case I am > making local changes or something. However, I'm not making local changes > and want to override this behavior if possible. Any suggestions on how > to get my source tree really up-to-date? Is *default delete present in your cvsup file? That one functions like cvs -P which prunes old/removed files/directories. HTH, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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