[cvsnt] What does release do differently from delete?

Gerhard Fiedler lists at connectionbrazil.com
Sat Jan 15 16:17:03 GMT 2005


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Bo Berglund wrote:

> You don't ever need to 'cvs release' a sandbox...
> All cvs release does that is not done by a simple delete in Windows Explorer
> is that it sets some kind of marker in the CVSROOT/history file on the server,
> but that is about all it does. 

Doesn't the "cvs release" command allow you to have cvs delete all files
under cvs control, leaving all other files alone? This is useful to make
sure you have nothing there that you might want to keep, and nothing you
could easily do with any other tool. 

What about cvs edits? Wouldn't "cvs release" release them? If it doesn't,
shouldn't it?

Gerhard



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