Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I'm pretty sure that cvs will delete local copies of file > removed from the repository with just "cvs update". The "-dP" just > affects directories--the "-d" says to pull down and update new > directories, and the "-P" tells it to prune (remove) empty directories > (this is necessary because cvs doesn't really version directories, and > you end up not really having a way to fully remove them from the > repository).
exactly. > My canonical invocation is: > > cvs -q -z6 update -dP > > (I use -z6 rather than -z9 because I remember reading somewhere that > the higher compressions numbers don't save much space, but use a lot > more CPU, and level 6 is the default for gzip.) I use a .cvsrc file: $ cat .cvsrc cvs -z3 -q diff -uN update -dP This way i just type cvs up and the data is compressed (I use -z3 because some sites don't want higher compression rates because of high CPU usage on the server) and the directories are handled right. Furthermore I always get unified diffs. bye boe -- Juergen Boemmels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Physik Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-2817 Universitaet Kaiserslautern Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3906 PGP Key fingerprint = 9F 56 54 3D 45 C1 32 6F 23 F6 C7 2F 85 93 DD 47