On 29 Mar 1997, Assar Westerlund wrote:

> In the cvsup case you can have local changes that will not be
> overwritten by cvsup:ing.
> ...
> By using cvsup you don't have to checkout - import, you can just merge
> in your local copy of the repository.

This is entirely incorrect. CVSup is really no different from
regular sup, from the user's point of view. It will extract files
(not a repository) from a remote CVS repository if you give it a
tag=something option, or it will extract the repository RCS files
themselves if the tag= option is left blank. It will not merge
local changes in any way, shape or form.

As I stated before, if you have local changes, you have to maintain
your own private repository and import new revisions of the
distribution files into that. Whether you're importing a checkout
from anon-cvs, a checkout from a local copy of the master repository,
or a tree created by sup or cvsup is really of no consequence.

cjs

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