Reminder about using cvs update to update the source tree.

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sat Jun 26 13:55:11 PDT 2004


    You always want to use 'cvs update -Pd'.  You can make -Pd the default
    by creating a ~/.cvsrc file with the following line in it:

    update -Pd

    I usually have this in my ~/.cvsrc:

    cvs -q
    diff -u
    update -Pd
    checkout -P

    These options (1) Prune out empty directories, which is necessary in order
    to keep the source tree in the form that the build system expect and
    (2) create any new directories added in the repository.

						-Matt





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