RE: solving the selective update of non-existent directories

[Arthur Barrett]

Martin,

> The problem is:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-07/msg00142.html
> 

CVS 1.11.0 is very very old and I believe has security issues.

My question is WHY do you want to update file1.txt instead of simply
updating the entire directory dir1 or dir2? The second example where you
want to get dir2/x/y/file1.txt seems particularly arbitrary, if your
sandbox is missing dir2 then surely you need ALL of dir2 (eg: if you
need dir2/libxml2/include/libxml2.h then you are also likely to require
dir2/libxml2/lib/libxml.a).

Regards,


Arthur Barrett