[cvsnt] Weird cvs update behaviour when using commit ids

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Jan 17 17:19:54 GMT 2005


keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> 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.
> 
There are subtle differences in the way "." is processed and the current 
directory (one of the crappier things about the old cvs code I'm working 
on right now in fact, although it's a big job).

There isn't a lot that Tortoisecvs can do, if all they're sending is 
what you typed...

Tony



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