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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Off topic: help with CVS, please!
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wnvse1p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090223180911.GA8240@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon,  23 Feb 2009 18:09:11 +0000")

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




      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-22 20:55 Off topic: help with CVS, please! Alan Mackenzie
2009-02-22 20:52 ` Chong Yidong
2009-02-22 21:02 ` Tom Tromey
2009-02-23 15:14   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-02-23 18:09   ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-02-24 21:48     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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