On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:29 PM, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote:
> I saw this in Tomaz's kernel panic post:
>
>> second one 'cvs -d $CVSROOT up -Pd ports src xenocara'
>

CVSROOT=anon...@anoncvs.eu.openbsd.org:/cvs in my case

> The FAQ (openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html) says you can combine directories for
> checkout but not for update:
>
> "You can combine the checkouts into one line (-stable shown):
>
> # export CVSROOT=anon...@anoncvs.example.org:/cvs
> # cd /usr
> # cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_5_1 -P src ports xenocara
>
> However, updates must be done directory-by-directory"
>
> Based on this I was doing it directory-by-directory but based on Tomaz's
> post quoted above it seems you can combine directories for CVS up also? If
> this is correct it would be nicer (and possibly more correct) than doing
> three seperate CVS ups. Is the FAQ wrong and/or has CVS changed to allow
> this, is it a good practice?
>

Eh probably my bad invention, but was running fine for couple of years
already (missed that sentence somewhat :-))

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