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Alain Gauthier wrote: > Dear all > > I work with CVSNT as client on Windows XP and a CVS server on Linux. > > On the client side, I type the command 'cvs -n update foo' on the DOS > command line interface : > In case of conflict or a need to merge with 'foo' I get not only the update > command output but also 'foo' is modfied > as if I performed the command without option '-n'. > So foo is modified indicating the conflict blocks and the .#foo is created. -n is only supported for 'co -n' on an empty directory (as used to simulate ls on servers that don't support it and by things like eclipse) - the latest documentation has been updated to reflect this. Supporting it for all commands is just too complex - it never really worked... even on the old cvs it sometimes modified the sandbox, and its implementation is just a mess (lots of conditions littered all over the code). There are plenty of other ways to find out information about the repository that are nondestructive. Tony