[cvsnt] Weird cvs update behaviour when using commit ids

[keith d. zimmerman]

keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> 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....

*bump*

can anybody clarify for me why the "." makes a difference here?

thanks,
-kz