Re: [harinath@cs.umn.edu: Re: Gnome-libs and libart_lgpl]

[Michael Harnois <mharnois willinet net>]

Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:

> 1. I never said
> 
> 	"Don't use `cvs update'"
>    
>    I said 
> 
> 	"Don't use `cvs update' to do the initial checkout"

Ah. You're right, that would be really dumb.

> 2. There's one case when `checkout' and `update -d' are different after
>    a tree has been checked out.  That is when a virtual subdir has been
>    added via the `modules' mechanism.  `checkout' knows how to handle
>    it, `update -d' doesn't.  This could be construed as a bug in CVS.
>    However, the documentation for the `modules' mechanism talks only
>    about checkout, not about update.  There's nothing wrong in how the
>    GNOME CVS Repository is set up.  It is just that people have slightly
>    more expectations of orthogonality than CVS really has.

OK. That constitutes a good reason to use checkout all the time, since 
one never really knows when such a thing will happen.

Thanks for the explanation.

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