From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Off topic: help with CVS, please! Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20090222205527.GA8368@muc.de> <20090223180911.GA8240@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235512168 17016 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 21:49:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 22:50:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lc5AX-00082F-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:50:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58272 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lc59D-0001MI-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lc598-0001Kz-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lc597-0001Je-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44744 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lc596-0001JX-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:12584) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc596-0001Gg-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182] helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc595-0002CM-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:55 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsQEAJP6o0lFxKYM/2dsb2JhbACBb9Z8hBEGg1s X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,261,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="34323864" Original-Received: from 69-196-166-12.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.166.12]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 24 Feb 2009 16:48:54 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 00AE7B419A; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20090223180911.GA8240@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:09:11 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109317 Archived-At: Alan> # cvs get -r5.286 cc-langs.el > /path/to/temp_file.el >> You can use "cvs co -p" for this. > Does cvs checkout work on a single file? I can never remember where/how `checkout' can be used when working inside a tree and what it really does, but AFAIK everytime it does something useful within a tree, the same result can be obtained with `update' instead. This is no exception: "cvs update -p -rREV FILE >TEMPFILE". Stefan