I hate CVS

[Jim Blandy <ji...@zwingli.cygnus.com>]

So, is it `-d -P', or `-D -p' that I need to pass to CVS to make it do
the natural and obvious thing, almost always correctly?

*grumble grumble*

Re: I hate CVS

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:06:26AM -0600, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Lee Burgess <le...@red-bean.com> writes:
> 
> > I always do '-dP'.
> 
> As do I.  BEWARE the -D!  Since you likely won't give it any
> parameters, you're asking CVS to give the files as of the date
> (nothing)--last time I accidentally did -D, I couldn't get any new
> updates afterwards because all my entries had sticky dates of Jan 1
> 1970!!

fyi, you should be able to disable sticky settings with:

  $ cvs up -A

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

Re: I hate CVS

[cm...@collab.net]

Lee Burgess <le...@red-bean.com> writes:

> I always do '-dP'.

As do I.  BEWARE the -D!  Since you likely won't give it any
parameters, you're asking CVS to give the files as of the date
(nothing)--last time I accidentally did -D, I couldn't get any new
updates afterwards because all my entries had sticky dates of Jan 1
1970!!

Ugh.

Re: I hate CVS

[Lee Burgess <le...@red-bean.com>]

Thomas Down writes:
 > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:33:24AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
 > > 
 > > So, is it `-d -P', or `-D -p' that I need to pass to CVS to make it do
 > > the natural and obvious thing, almost always correctly?
 > > 
 > > *grumble grumble*
 > 
 >   -d -P
 > 
 > Thomas (who got bitten by this one in a fairly big way last
 >         week, on another project.  *grumble*)

I always do '-dP'.

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Re: I hate CVS

[Thomas Down <td...@sanger.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:33:24AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> So, is it `-d -P', or `-D -p' that I need to pass to CVS to make it do
> the natural and obvious thing, almost always correctly?
> 
> *grumble grumble*

  -d -P

Thomas (who got bitten by this one in a fairly big way last
        week, on another project.  *grumble*)