Re: How to detect files not yet checked out in CVS ????

[Larry Jones]

Bitter Spock writes:
> 
> I can't seem to update the directory with the other files, if I have a
> partial
> checkout.

``cvs up -d'' should get all the other files.  It works for me.

> I am trying to merely detect their existence i.e. "cvs -n update" to
> use
> in a PERL script I am writing.

Unfortunately, the way checkout (and update) work, it isn't really
possible for -n to work completely correctly in all cases and this is
one of the cases where it doesn't.

-Larry Jones

Ever notice how tense grown-ups get when they're recreating? -- Calvin