[cvsnt] Re: Checkout of a tagged revision

[Kevin]

Just a suggestion: use WinCVS! You can enter the target folder in a nice GUI
and let it fiddle with the command line.

You can learn more on how to use the command line by examining the commands
generated by WinCVS.

-- 
Kevin Agius

"Carl Zmola" <carl at membersonlysoftware.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.96.1083095372.235.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
>
> Can someone tell me if the following is supposed to work?
>
> I have a directory  c:\testprojects\p2 that is in a module testprojects
> I have a tag on p2 "testtag"
>
>
> I want to check this out.
>
> in a different directory
> cvs co -r testtag testprojects\p2
>
> This complains about testtag not being a tag, but if I
>
> cvs co testprojects\p2
> cvs update -r testtag testprojects\p2\*
>
> It seems to work.  Is this the normal way to do things?
>
>  I am a little nervous about what this does for files that have been
> added or removed between Head and testtag.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>