Re: how to checkout a specific file from a Makefile

[Larry Jones]

Bram Moolenaar writes [quoting me]:
> > 
> > Because checkout is the wrong subcommand.  The subcommand you want,
> > surprisingly enough, is update!  Just do:
> > 
> >     cvs update testscript
> 
> This indeed works.  Thanks for the hint, I wouldn't have guessed this.

The rule of thumb is that you use checkout to get a directory for the
very first time and then use update from then on.

> However, if I change the question to checkout "testdir", which obviously
> is a directory instead of a file, this doesn't seem to work.  Perhaps
> you have a solution for that as well?  "cvs update testdir" doesn't do
> anything, not even an error message.

That's because update doesn't create directories by default -- you have
to use the -d option.

-Larry Jones

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