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Tony Hoyle wrote: > As I wrote a while back, when I first started using cvs, update -C was > broke and I never used it again until someone complained it broke a > couple of months ago. I use it through TortoiseCVS once in awhile. I never had trouble with it (but Tortoise isn't on that recent of a version cvsnt either). It's possible that you never heard anything on it because always worked. > The code is quite tricky as it needs to handle case sensitivity > changes. eg. if there are two files Fred and FRED, then whatever one > you check out should be the one that is updated, and the other one > should just generate a warning. 'Update -S' essentially reverses this > logic so you get the other file - once a case is selected it should be > preserved, even across an update -C (which is one good reason not to > go around deleting files). The old Unix code would simply alternate > randomly between files, which wasn't particularly useful. As it is it > seems to work well enough, but could really do with server-side > support, which may be added at some point. > Nasty, case sensitive problems on a non-sensitive platform. Personally I expect trouble if I mess with case sensitivity, so I try to aviod those problems. Doesn't help here, I know. I'm sure you'll figure it out. Regards, -------------------- Glen Starrett