Re: built failure of current userland

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:36:03PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:35:14AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > I actually did a rm -rf && cvs -q update -dPA
> 
> Hmm, then there should be no old files (at least in the parts you rm'd)
> 
> > I have never heard/used the -I \! option, but I will try this evening 
> > and let you know! Thanks.
> 
> You can do that on the whole tree, it will show you all local files that
> should not be there.

You can put useful global options in ~/.cvsrc. I have:
cvs -z3 -q
update -d -P -I ! -I CVS -I .#*
checkout -P
diff -u -p

You definitely need the -P, a bit of compression seems to stop massive
amounts of data being sent to the cvs server.

        David

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