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keith d. zimmerman wrote: > Torsten Martinsen wrote: > >> keith d. zimmerman wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running cvsnt and tortoise cvs. When I do a merge command (and >>> type in commit ids) from tortoise, it runs the following: >>> >>> In C:\builds\current: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" >>> "-x" "update" "-j" "@<171041e2d90b0745" "-j" "@171041e2d90b0745" "." >>> CVSROOT=:sspi:dev-server:/ewcode >>> >>> This results not only in the changes merging as expected, but it also >>> updates any *other* files that have been changed since my last >>> update. It's not a big deal, but it can be annoying... >> >> >> >> Note that the command specifies ".", i.e. the current directory. So >> CVSNT does the correct thing. Did you select individual files, or the >> entire directory? >> >> -Torsten >> > > i selected the entire directory... The commit id refered to changes in > approx. 8 different files. It was my understanding of the "update -j > -j" syntax that only the changes between those two would be applied, and > not a full update.... *bump* can anybody clarify for me why the "." makes a difference here? thanks, -kz