[cvsnt] Weird cvs update behaviour when using commit ids

[keith d. zimmerman]

Torsten Martinsen wrote:
> keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running cvsnt and tortoise cvs.  When I do a merge command (and 
>> type in commit ids) from tortoise, it runs the following:
>>
>> In C:\builds\current: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" "-x" 
>> "update" "-j" "@<171041e2d90b0745" "-j" "@171041e2d90b0745" "."
>> CVSROOT=:sspi:dev-server:/ewcode
>>
>> This results not only in the changes merging as expected, but it also 
>> updates any *other* files that have been changed since my last update. 
>> It's not a big deal, but it can be annoying... 
> 
> 
> Note that the command specifies ".", i.e. the current directory. So 
> CVSNT does the correct thing. Did you select individual files, or the 
> entire directory?
> 
> -Torsten
> 

i selected the entire directory... The commit id refered to changes in 
approx. 8 different files.  It was my understanding of the "update -j 
-j" syntax that only the changes between those two would be applied, and 
not a full update....