Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:20:25PM -0800, Stephen Rasku wrote:
> Nathan Herring wrote:
> >I'd like to have the option on successive imports to mark as deleted any
> >files that previously existed on that vendor branch that are not in the
> >import. 
> 
> I don't see why this is necessary.  If you do:
> 
>       cvs co -r vendor-v2 themodule
>       
> It will not check out any modules that don't have the vendor-v2 tag.  

True.

> For all intents and purposes it is deleted.

Not true.  If you do:
        cvs co -r vendor themodule

you *will* get the deleted files.  You shouldn't.

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