CVS Sticky Tags

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@yahoo.com
Sat Jul 6 10:13:00 GMT 2002


--- 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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