June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 49m
English
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Updating Sandboxes
The
cvs update command checks your sandbox against
the repository and downloads any changed files to the sandbox. It
complements the cvs commit command, which
uploads changes from the sandbox to the repository. Use the
-d command option to download new directories as
well. Example 2-16 shows the use of cvs
update.
Example 2-16. Updating the sandbox
$cvs update -dcvs update: Updating . U file2 cvs update: Updating directory $lsCVS directory file1 file2
As with committing, you should not have to specify the repository; it
should be stored in the special CVS subdirectory
in the sandbox. You must run cvs update from
within the sandbox, and it is best to run it from the root directory
of the sandbox to ensure that it checks all the subdirectories.
Note that -d means two different things,
depending on where it is in the command. Recall that CVS commands
take the form:
cvs [cvs-options]command[command-options]
As a CVS option, -d defines the directory path.
As a command option to the update command,
-d downloads directories and files. This is
explained more in Chapter 3.
As the update command runs, it generates a list of files that are modified. To the immediate left of each filename, you will see a single uppercase letter. Those letters report the status of each file listed, and they have the following meanings:
- U filename
Updated successfully. A newer version in the repository has replaced your sandbox version.
- A filename
Marked for addition but not yet added to ...
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