[cvsnt] Re: Feature idea: "brute-force update"

[Oliver Giesen]

Tony Hoyle wrote:

> Oliver Giesen wrote:
> > ...or more timidly worded:   What about a new option argument for
> > Update and Checkout to override the "Move away X. It is in the way"
> > errors and let CVS simply overwrite those files (possibly after
> > creating a backup copy like cvs up -C does)?
> > 
> It's a genuine error - It means someone has created a file with the
> same name as something in the cvs repository, that wasn't previously
> checked out.  There's no way of handling this automatically.

Well, if the user would specify this option then CVS should just assume
he knows what he's doing (nevertheless adding a confirmation warning
(with correpssponding -y option to override) would be in order I think).

For real life examples of when such an option would come in handy see
Luigi's post here and Mike Gettings's (titled "Entries not updated...")
today on the CVSGUI list.

Cheers,

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Oliver
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