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authorGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2002-08-29 09:14:20 +0000
committerGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2002-08-29 09:14:20 +0000
commit4c0e7cbefbc3f5badb482fca9a5ad3b34052a641 (patch)
tree7aa828bc2fc80e1bdbccf01f8c2c7b3e686f72e6
parenta49eba06af24780c663b46430a5571e5d96edc08 (diff)
Updating branch
-rw-r--r--etc/cvs-tips.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/cvs-tips.txt b/etc/cvs-tips.txt
index 495aef3c..a8b8fc7f 100644
--- a/etc/cvs-tips.txt
+++ b/etc/cvs-tips.txt
@@ -105,9 +105,10 @@ This is needed to solve "localssh.dcs" versus "ssh.dcs" problem.
Moving to a new branch
======================
- find * -path '*/CVS' -prune -o -path 'CVS' -prune -o -print | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 cvs commit -m"Updating branch" -f -r 4.0
+This only works on a clean repository (no spurious files):
+
+ find * -path '*/CVS' -prune -o -path 'CVS' -prune -o -print | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 cvs commit -m"Updating branch" -f -r 4.0
(The tr is needed because of some nasty filenames, e.g. etc/isa/\backslashname)
-