Re: What's remembered?

[Derek R. Price]

"David A. Cobb" wrote:

> I run CVS most frequently from Xemacs-PCL-CVS.
> On one project I checked out a specific tag (xemacs: CVS co -r
> r21-5-latest-beta...).
>
> Since then, I have been surprised to find that PCL CVS-Update finds
> everything up-to-date dispite being on the edge of the development line.
>
> I know that CVS can determine the repository from the directory
> structure.  My question is: does the program also remember the specific -r
> tag, or do I need to do a command-line update in order to supply that info?

Yeah, CVS does remember.  You probably want 'cvs up -A' to refresh from the 
latest on
the HEAD or you meant r21-5-latest-beta to be a branch tag.  Read up in the 
manual on
branches.  http://cvshome.org/docs/manual .

Derek

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