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Bo Berglund wrote: > Yes, as long as I don't have to also get them into the checkoutlist. > But I wanted a command somewhere that would just look in the CVSROOT > folder and put the missing files there. It's like treating CVSROOT as > a sandbox (which it is in some way already) and do an update on it. > But of course the RCS files must also be created then... All the default files that you're looking to get are in the checkout list automatically (that is to say, they don't need to be explicitly listed, as you found out). > > And I must make sure to *not* overwrite a file that was there already > but I did not recognize lest I lose the edits thta might already have > gone into it... Do this then: xcopy /my/old/cvsroot /my/temp/cvsroot xcopy /my/temp/cvsroot /my/old/cvsroot That way you're sure to be safe (unless you do that backwards!). > Of course I am creating new repositories all the time when there are > new builds, but they are rather numerous now. So it might be good to > at least have an inkling when this happens so it's needed. I would think this info would be in the release notes, but I have to admit I don't always read them myself. -- Glen Starrett