Re: CVS

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Darren,

How about:
 
 cd ..
 rm -rf module
 cvs checkout module

If you really don't like the safety of the .# files, you have
the source, send them a patch....

Jake

--- Darren Cook <darrenj@example.com> wrote:
> > why not just delete the file(s) in question then do a "cvs update"
> again?
> 
> That is harder than deleting the .#* files (e.g. if I've changed a
> dozen
> files spread accross a few directories).
> 
> Darren
> 
> > > csv update has this option:
> > >   -C      Overwrite locally modified files with clean repository
> copies.
> > >
> > > It works, but it leaves behind backup files (starting with ".#").
> Is
> > > there a way to tell it to not do this? It seems a common need: I
> edit
> > > some files, the idea sucks, I want to wipe them out and go back
> to the
> > > real version.
> > >
> > > P.S. For the moment I'm using this after cvs update:
> > >  rm `find . -name .#* | xargs`
> 
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