Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:30:24 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibly smoked my cvs tree :-( Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961003122747.4782L-100000@copernicus.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199610030121.SAA13498@austin.polstra.com>
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On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, John Polstra wrote: >If you have some "extra" files in your tree that should not be >there at all, CVSup won't remove them. Like sup, it will only I presume those extra files are those files not defined by CVS at all ? In my case, if I have the tree in a state before some files are deleted, and then use CVSup to get the new tree, will it delete those files ? >case) will be handled OK. Ok, you answered my question before I asked it :-) >Here's another possibility. I have heard reports that "rsync" (see >"net/rsync" in the ports collection) works well for recovering a >severely damaged tree. You might want to take a look at that. The tree isn't severely damaged (at least I don't think it is). If it is, it'll be far easier to simply tarball the whole thing and re-download it. Good idea though. >Good luck fixing things up! Thank you, and thank you to everyone else who posted with good suggestions. --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org] UUNet Internet Africa [0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com]
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