[cvsnt] What does release do differently from delete?

[Tony Hoyle]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Doesn't the "cvs release" command allow you to have cvs delete all files
> under cvs control, leaving all other files alone? This is useful to make
> sure you have nothing there that you might want to keep, and nothing you
> could easily do with any other tool. 

It does that by default (you need to do release -f to stop it).  If I'm 
not sure whether I want to keep things I just zip up the entire sandbox 
and store it (after deleting debug&release directories) rather than use 
release.

> What about cvs edits? Wouldn't "cvs release" release them? If it doesn't,
> shouldn't it?

I think it does... that said a lot of people don't use edits (I don't 
for example) so it wouldn't be an issue.

Tony