[cvsnt] Re: Best way to check out missing subdir?

[Glen Starrett]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> To completely avoid checkout, maybe something like this would do it:
> 
>   md dirToCloak
>   cvs add dirToCloak
>   cvs up -r inexistentTag dirToCloak

Could also use a date.  That'll still be sticky and not leave any temp 
tags in your system (the command would fail if the tag didn't actually 
exist).

cvs up -D 1970-01-01


> Isn't the file flag 's' [1] what you're looking for? Together with "cvs ci
> -f"?
> 
> [1] http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/html/Substitution-modes.html

Forgot about that one -- Yes, that would do what I'm talking about.


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Glen Starrett