Hello all,
The manual page states that export is basically just about checkout
without CVS dirs and files therein.
However, I noticed that export doesn't update files at all; if they exist
new files aren't exported. The output is like:
---
cvs export: Updating /cfg/dist
? /cfg/dist/etc
? /cfg/
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 23:07 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The manual page states that export is basically just about
> checkout without CVS dirs and files therein.
>
> However, I noticed that export doesn't update files at all; if
> they exist new files aren't exported. The outp
Pekka Savola wrote:
> Now I have to do this by rm -rf'ing the old directory and creating it
> anew every time. Is there a better way to do this? I doubt it because
> it'd appear that updating files that have been exported would require
> those pesky CVS files by design.
You could always update
Pekka Savola wrote:
> >Of course, you
> > could always use 'cvs update' and deal with the 'CVS' directories.
>
> Umm.. If you delete CVS directories, cvs update doesn't work, right? So
> this doesn't seem to be an option as it's essentially the same as export.
>
> Unless you can somehow set CVS
