Subject: Re: CVS Tree
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/1997 10:35:12
Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> writes:
> This is entirely incorrect. CVSup is really no different from
> regular sup, from the user's point of view. It will extract files
> (not a repository) from a remote CVS repository if you give it a
> tag=something option, or it will extract the repository RCS files
> themselves if the tag= option is left blank. It will not merge
> local changes in any way, shape or form.

It sure does.  You can have local tags and branches and it will
`merge' the RCS files.

You can specify if you want that behaviour with the keyword `delete'
in the supfile.

/assar