[ale] OT, cvs question for the experts

[Denny Chambers]

try cvs update -d

Jim Lynch wrote:

>I admit to being a bit of a novice with cvs.  I have created a cvs
>repository on system a.  I have been working on a project doing
>development on system b and when I finish I check in my work and go to
>system c (user testing) and check out the changes.  All has been working
>fine until I added a new directory to my project.  I did a cvs add of
>the directory, a cvs add of the files in the directory and a cvs
>commit.  cvs reported it had committed the files.  A cvs status on
>system b shows that to be true.  But when I went over to system c to try
>to check out the files, the only think that a cvs update finds is the
>old stuff that was changed.  It doesn't update the new stuff.  I tried a
>cvs co of the directory but it said:
>
> cvs co images
>cvs server: cannot find module `images' - ignored
>cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot expand modules
>
>I looked in the docs, but I don't see any other commands.  How to I
>check out a newly added directory and its contents?
>
>Both of these systems are running Linux.  On is RH the other Debian.  
>
>cvs version
>Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1p1 (client/server)
>Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)
>
>(both systems)
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
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