On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:25 PM, jmc <j...@cosmicnetworks.net> wrote: > --- Chris [Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:18:56PM +1100]: --- >> I have had to interrupt (^c) cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src command >> about three times. I was wondering whether checking out src three >> times would overwrite the old files or ignore what's already on the >> disk and update files that are not there or do anything else? > > cvs(1) will not touch what's already on disk.
Not quite: if you use "cvs checkout" and the target directory already exists from a matching previous checkout (partial or full), then the cvs process will effectively convert itself to "cvs update -d". So, if there have been files changed since the previous checkout then they *will* be updated. Philip Guenther
