* De: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-01-31 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current ]
> On 2003-01-30 21:38, David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thus spake Mike Makonnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Use the r version of the cvs commands (like cvs rlog and rdiff). They operate on
> > > the repository remotely, so you don't need to have the files checked out localy.
> >
> > That's a pretty good solution, and I use those occasionally. It
> > would be a perfect solution if there were an 'rupdate', so I don't
> > have to (cd /tmp; cvs co src/file/i/want.c)
> > && cp /tmp/src/file/i/want.c /where/i/want/it
> > && rm -rf /tmp/src
> > all the time.
>
> # cd /tmp
> # cvs -d 'repo magic' export -rHEAD src/file/i/want.c
>
> Does `cvs export' do the trick for you?
Further, export -d somedir might be useful in this situation to get the
files where you want them, though sometimes -d does not DWIM, so I'm
not sure :)
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