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Re: How to make "update -d" ignore a top-level directory?
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Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: How to make "update -d" ignore a top-level directory? |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:18:04 -0500 (EST) |
Shankar Unni writes:
>
> * Be able to sit at the root of my work area (where I did the cvs
> checkout), and be able to do a simple "cvs update -d".
> * Have the "cvs update -d" fetch everything except a single top-level
> directory I don't want.
Unfortunately, that is not possible with the current design of CVS.
There is no way for update to distinguish between a newly-added
directory and an old directory that you explicitly chose not to check
out in the first place.
-Larry Jones
You just can't ever be too careful. -- Calvin