On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Feb 09 20:10:11, Jan Stary wrote:
> > On Feb 09 18:54:45, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > > BTW, AFAIK, cvs -d up does not write Root files.
> >
> > It does:
> >
> > cd /usr/src
> > ftp -o - ftp://MIRROR/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/sys.tar.gz | tar xzpf
> > cd sys
> > find . -name Root
> > cvs -q -d MIRROR up
> > find . -name Root
>
> Ah, you mean 'write' as opposed to 'create'?
>
> What I showed above is that 'cvs -d MIRROR up' _creates_
> the CVS/Root in the directories where they did not exist.
>
> But you are right, running 'cvs -d OTHERMIRROR up' does
> _not_ rewrite those CVS/Root files that already exist.
>
> Jan
I meant 'create' but a test clearly shows that it does create missing
Root files. Sorry for the confusion, I must be mixing this up with
some other weird cvs behaviour I've seen in the past.
-Otto
