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Re: export vs checkout differences: files not updated


From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re: export vs checkout differences: files not updated
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:26:47 -0500

Pekka Savola wrote:

> Now I have to do this by rm -rf'ing the old directory and creating it
> anew every time.  Is there a better way to do this?  I doubt it because
> it'd appear that updating files that have been exported would require
> those pesky CVS files by design.

You could always update to a fresh directory name and then use two 'mv'
commands to perform the "update" almost atomically.  If you can handle
symbolic links, I think ln -snf can even be done atomically.  Of course, you
could always use 'cvs update' and deal with the 'CVS' directories.

Derek

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