"Joseph I. Davida" wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:42:47PM +0000, Joseph I. Davida wrote:
> > > I had enabled dmapi option during configuration.
> > > If this feature is not ready, perhaps the config
> > > should grey it out completely?
> >
> > Or the user should use -d when doing a CVS update to grab new directories ?
> >
> > -Andi
cvs has two -d options
cvs -d <dir> cmd
specifies the CVSROOT dir
cvs -d <dir> update -d
is a different flag the tells cvs up pull out any new directories.
>
> Well, the manpage says -d option is for setting the root directory:
>
> -d CVS_root_directory
> Use CVS_root_directory as the root directory path
> name of the master source repository. Overrides
> the setting of the CVSROOT environment variable.
> This value should be specified as an absolute path
> name.
>
> Or for creating a new directory in your version of the
> tree (assuming you KNOW that the source cvs tree has the
> new directgory name) and cvs update -d new_dir will bring
> in new_dir. But this requires that you know the new_dir
> name on the source repository in order to get it's
> contents. Catch 22?
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