Re: CVS Update Behaviour

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 11:06:28 (+0000), Colm Murphy wrote: ]
> Subject: CVS Update Behaviour
>
> All is fine until the developer does an cvs update.
> The current behaviour is that all existing files are updated (which is 
> fine) but all other files in the directory are checked out.
> This is more of an annyoance than anything else, but it can easily lead 
> to tagging files which aren't part of the module you are working on.
> (if you use cvs tag).

It sounds like you really need to re-organise your fundamental
repository structure so that the files that are used together are
grouped alone in their own directories.  There are many other advantages
to such a more structured organisation over and above how well it works
with CVS.

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