[cvsnt] Re: cvs update fails to create files

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Mon Dec 12 14:27:17 GMT 2005


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Thomas Klaeger wrote:
> In the following scenario 'cvs update' (with cvsnt) won't create a file
> although it should:
> 
> Create a file "a.txt" and import it into a new module. Checkout the module
> into a new working copy. Tag the repository as "RevA". Create an additional
> file "b.txt" and add it to the module.
> 
> Now checkout the module, Revision "RevA" into another working copy.
> 
> Finally do "cvs update -d -r 1.1 b.txt" within the working copy.
> 
> cvsnt with a local repository or with a cvsnt server (with pserver
> authentication) won't create the file "b.txt", although it should (IMHO).

Works fine for me... just done exactly that.

Is your software verifying that revision 1.1 actually exists and is not 
deleted?  If you're adding b.txt to a sandbox checked out with "RevA" it 
will not have one.

Tony



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