Re: Failed to build GNOME at Tue Dec 22 04:48:51 CST 1998 (fwd)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

If you don't specify a -r tag, CVS should update files with the same tag
as you used last time (it defaults to HEAD for the first checkout).

So if you do a "cvs checkout -r GNOME_STABLE gnome-libs", and then "cvs
update gnome-libs", you will get any updates on the GNOME_STABLE branch.

To switch back to the head, simply do a "cvs update -r HEAD gnome-libs".

Is this easier to understand?

James Henstridge.

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On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:41:52 +0800 (WST)  James Henstridge wrote:
> > using the -r flag to CVS specifies a tag to check out on the CVS (so a tag
> > is basically a set of revisions for the different files).  For branches,
> > you have a sticky tag that gets moved when new checkings are made to that
> > branch (GNOME_STABLE and HEAD for example).
> > 
> > So -r whatever will do what you think it does.  Note that AFAIK, only
> > gnome-libs and gnome-core have stable 1.0 branches so far.  For other
> > packages, you are probably best checking out off the head (except for
> > things like ORBit where you may be using the FOR_PANEL tag).
> 
> Er.  This isn't too clear to me.  I'm still wondering what branch you
> get if you don't specify anything with -r. 
> 
> If I do a 'cvs -z3 co gnome-libs' do I get GNOME_STABLE or HEAD?
> 
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> Bruce Z. Lysik  <eldrik@logrus.com>   http://www.logrus.com/~eldrik/index.cgi
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