Re: have finished reading http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html

[Sergei Organov]

address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:

> Sergei Organov writes:
> > 
> > How is it different from update -A *without* copying anything on top of
> > it? My experience is that update -A would perform regular merge of
> > current changes into the head version. Am I missing something?
> 
> You're missing the fact that copying an old file over top of the current
> file will wipe out any subsequent changes that were merged into the
> current file by the update.

Ah, sorry, I forgot it supposed to be "revert changes" operation, then
definitely the correct way is to use -j trick. And copying files over
CVS-managed files is almost always a wrong idea indeed, especially for
newbies.

-- 
Sergei.