Re: How to compose a new module out of dirs in other modules !

[Bettina Ball]

Hi,

   sorry for the late reply, I was out of the office last week.

On Friday 12 March 2004 17:19, address@hidden wrote:
> Thank You VERS MUCH for all the infos and suggestions !!!
>
> The solutions using "-d" was the one I was looking for. I completly
> missed that option in the Doc !
>
> BUT there is one "strange behaviour", which made it difficult for
> me to realize whats going on:
>
> I have checked out a module.
> I add a ampersand module to that module in the CVSROOT files.
> Then i do a "cvs update -dP" in the checked out module and cvs did
> NOT checkout the newly added ampersand module !
> So I have to release the old checked out module and checkout again
> the complete module.
>
> So it seems that a checked out module doesnt realize changes to the
> modules definitions.

Yes, unfortunately this is a problem that I experienced, too. I don't 
know why this is happening and what a proper solution would be.

However, there are two ways to work around it. One would be to 
checkout just the newly added ampersand module into your already 
checked out module. The other would be to checkout the complete 
(changed) module into a new directory tree and copy the entire 
checked out new ampersand module subdir into your original checked 
out module. (Hope this isn't too confusing.) I'm not sure if the 
latter is a wise way to handle things, but so far it has worked for 
me.

If anybody knows a proper solution for this little quirk, I'd be 
grateful for any hints.

Ciao,

   Bettina

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