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Aaron Kynaston wrote: > The cvs client help reports that -n does the following: > > > -n Do not execute anything that will change the disk. > > > I'm assuming that means do not execute anything that will change NEITHER disk - neither the repository, nor the local sandbox. > > Is this correct? It commonly refers to the sandbox only - things like history may get written anyway. In theory, but in practice there are few commands where -n actually does anything approaching sensible. -n update and -n checkout are the commonly used ones.. I'm not sure I'd be prepared to definately state that others actually work (-n update only works if there are no joins etc. as merging branches requires file modifiction to make any sense, and switching it off just breaks it. Not sure if that's fixable in any way.). Tony