[cvsnt] How to get the new admin files in build 2214 into existingCVSROOT?

Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 21:44:18 GMT 2006


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I guess everyone in this list should have at least one diff
application supporting directory compare? ;-)

-Flávio

On 1/18/06, Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik at microfocus.com> wrote:
> > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org
> > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Glen Starrett
> >
> > Bo Berglund wrote:
> > > And I must make sure to *not* overwrite a file that was there
> already
> > > but I did not recognize lest I lose the edits thta might already
> have
> > > gone into it...
> >
> > Do this then:
> >
> > xcopy /my/old/cvsroot /my/temp/cvsroot
> > xcopy /my/temp/cvsroot /my/old/cvsroot
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler and safer to do:
>
>         attrib +r /my/old/cvsroot/*
>         xcopy /my/temp/cvsroot /my/old/cvsroot
>         attrib -r /my/old/cvsroot/*
>
> Unless it's given the /r switch, xcopy won't copy over read-only files.
> (It's unfortunate that xcopy has a "only copy files that already exist
> in the destination" option, but not the reverse.)
>
> --
> Michael Wojcik
> Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus
>



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