Re: Getting the latest cvs version (was Re: tn5250 0.17.1 crash on "graphics" data)

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Martin Rowe wrote:

> Hi
> 
> --- Sean Porterfield <sporter@bestdist.com>
> > wrote:
> >OK, I finally figured out how to get 0.17.1 (directions on the CVS server 
>would
> >be nice!) since that branch doesn't get checked out when you do `cvs checkout
> >tn5250`
> 
> Would you care to share that hard-earned knowledge? I can get 0.16pre2 using 
>cvs checkout -r b0-16, but there doesn't seem to be a 0-17 branch. I did a cvs 
>status[1], and that only seems to point to a 0-16 branch. I second the 
>proposal for directions ;-)
> 
> Regards, Martin
> 
> [1]Picked this up from the man page, as I thought I ought to RTFM before 
>posting. I only use cvs for keeping up with tn5250, so my understanding of it 
>is rather sketchy.
> 

My man page for cvs lists this for the -r switch:

       -r tag Use  the  revision  specified  by  the tag argument
              instead of the default ``head'' revision.  As  well
              as arbitrary tags defined with the tag or rtag com-
              mand, two special tags are always available: `HEAD'
              refers  to the most recent version available in the
              repository, and `BASE' refers to the  revision  you
              last  checked  out  into the current working direc-
              tory.

              The tag specification is ``sticky''  when  you  use
              this  option with `cvs checkout' or `cvs update' to
              make your own copy of a file: cvs remembers the tag
              and  continues to use it on future update commands,
              until you specify otherwise.

Seems to imply to me that you'd do 

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.cleveland.lug.net:/tn5250' checkout -r HEAD 
tn5250 

to grab the "latest" source code from the repository.  Or, if you did a 
rm -rf tn5250/  then just did a "checkout" without the -r switch, it
should also get the latest version.

(which is, in fact, what I've been doing)




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