Bram Moolenaar writes [quoting me]: > > > > Because checkout is the wrong subcommand. The subcommand you want, > > surprisingly enough, is update! Just do: > > > > cvs update testscript > > This indeed works. Thanks for the hint, I wouldn't have guessed this.
The rule of thumb is that you use checkout to get a directory for the very first time and then use update from then on. > However, if I change the question to checkout "testdir", which obviously > is a directory instead of a file, this doesn't seem to work. Perhaps > you have a solution for that as well? "cvs update testdir" doesn't do > anything, not even an error message. That's because update doesn't create directories by default -- you have to use the -d option. -Larry Jones Kicking dust is the only part of this game we really like. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
