[cvsnt] Weird cvs update behaviour when using commit ids

[keith d. zimmerman]

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> 
>>
>> can anybody clarify for me why the "." makes a difference here?
>>
> 
> You effectively selected all the files in the directory.
> 
> Since neither of the commit ids exist in those files the result is (I 
> think) just a standard update.  If you do an update first before trying 
> to do the merge it should do the right thing.
> 
> Tony

It should be noted here that this behaviour does not occur if the 
command line does not contain the "." (using "cvs udate -j @<commit -j 
@commit" in the top level directory works as I would expect it to)   I'm 
assuming this is because using "." explicitly selects all files? 
Perhaps I should take this up with the tortoise cvs team instead at this 
point.

thanks,
-kz