[cvsnt] Re: Best way to check out missing subdir?

[Gerhard Fiedler]

Bo Berglund wrote:

> When you want to get certain specific files out of a directory, for
> example from some "common" dir that holds tons of uninteresting stuff
> you can do a ceckout where you list the specific files. THis creates
> Entries.Static and makes sure that an update in that sandbox never adds
> any files, just updates the existing ones. Very handy for example when
> dealing with programs that share some common files and you create
> virtual modules that check out just exactly what the particular program
> project needs. We do it all te time for that purpose. And that is why I
> was not liking the way it was created when I tried to get a single
> *directory* from the server.... 

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. It seems that you can get rid of this file
with the update command (with -d or -dl).

Gerhard