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Tony Hoyle wrote: > Oliver Giesen wrote: > > ...or more timidly worded: What about a new option argument for > > Update and Checkout to override the "Move away X. It is in the way" > > errors and let CVS simply overwrite those files (possibly after > > creating a backup copy like cvs up -C does)? > > > It's a genuine error - It means someone has created a file with the > same name as something in the cvs repository, that wasn't previously > checked out. There's no way of handling this automatically. Well, if the user would specify this option then CVS should just assume he knows what he's doing (nevertheless adding a confirmation warning (with correpssponding -y option to override) would be in order I think). For real life examples of when such an option would come in handy see Luigi's post here and Mike Gettings's (titled "Entries not updated...") today on the CVSGUI list. Cheers, -- Oliver ---- ------------------ ICQ: 18777742 (http://wwp.icq.com/18777742) MSN: ogiesen at hotmail.com Y!: ogiesen