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Re: CVS Sticky Tags
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: Harold Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>, cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:13:40 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: CVS Sticky Tags
--- Harold Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> Nicholas,
>
> > You might want to set your cvs sticky tag to the xf-4_2-branch for the
> > checkout if you run into problems with HEAD. If you do go this route,
> be
> > sure to unset the sticky tag in the /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin
> > directory. This way you'll get the latest Cygwin/XFree updates while
> > keeping the rest of the distribution stable.
>
> Okay, lets say I check out the xf-4_2-branch. What command to I run,
> and in
> what directory, to unset the sticky tag for teh hw/xwin directory?
Harold,
1)cd xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin
2)cvs -z4 update -dPA
The -A resets(unsets) the sticky tag and merges all changes from HEAD as
well as downloading any new files or directories (-dP).
Cheers,
Nicholas
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