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Tony Hoyle wrote: > keith d. zimmerman wrote: > >> >> can anybody clarify for me why the "." makes a difference here? >> > > You effectively selected all the files in the directory. > > Since neither of the commit ids exist in those files the result is (I > think) just a standard update. If you do an update first before trying > to do the merge it should do the right thing. > > Tony It should be noted here that this behaviour does not occur if the command line does not contain the "." (using "cvs udate -j @<commit -j @commit" in the top level directory works as I would expect it to) I'm assuming this is because using "." explicitly selects all files? Perhaps I should take this up with the tortoise cvs team instead at this point. thanks, -kz