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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:24:16 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: > >2. The wording in the postcommit description is: >"This will cause checkins to repository directories starting with >cyclic-pages to update the checked out tree in /u/www/local-docs" >My question here is the following: >If one puts a line like this > >^SomeModule HEAD c:/test/shadow > >into the shadow script, will a commit to the module SomeModule >*create* a shadow at the expected position or must one first check out >a sandbox there and then the shadow action will just "update" it as it >exists? >If the latter is the case, will it then handle the addition of new >directories or will the shadow just consist of the initially checked >out tree with new updated versions of files? > I now made a test that worked out very poorly: 1) Added this line to the CVSROOT/shadow file: ^ModuleXX HEAD C:/DATA/USERS/CVSNT and committed the file. 2) Edited a file in my ModuleXX module and committed it. Nothing happened in C:/DATA/USERS/CVSNT it is still totally empty. Is this how it is supposed to work? /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)