[cvsnt] Re: Feature idea: "brute-force update"

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Wed Jan 11 12:06:45 GMT 2006


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Oliver Giesen wrote:
> ...or more timidly worded: 
> 
> What about a new option argument for Update and Checkout to override
> the "Move away X. It is in the way" errors and let CVS simply overwrite
> those files (possibly after creating a backup copy like cvs up -C does)?
> 
It's a genuine error - It means someone has created a file with the same 
name as something in the cvs repository, that wasn't previously checked 
out.  There's no way of handling this automatically.

Tony



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