[support] CVS Update to my Drupal install didn't work

[Jason Flatt]

On Saturday, February 2 2008 7:51:07 pm Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Drupalers,
>
> I'm new to using CVS for checking out Drupal. I just tried to update an
> installation that I had installed via a CVS checkout.
>
> Via the command line, and in the drupal directory, I typed:
> cvs update -dP
>
> I was pleased to see some messages from the terminal that led me to believe
> it was a successful update. But after it was done, my site was still 5.3,
> like it was before the update.
>
> Based on my limited knowledge of CVS, I think the problem might have been
> with my original CVS command, which was:
>
> cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r
> DRUPAL-5-3 drupal
>
>
> Is this essentially impossible to update since I explicitly wrote 5-3?

You could go into each CVS directory and edit each Tag file to remove 
the "-3", but I'm not actually sure that would work, and there are a lot of 
them.

> Should I just have written Drupal-5 to get the latest version of the Drupal
> 5 branch which would then be updatable with the cvs update command?

Yes.

> Do I need to start over with a fresh CVS checkout?

That's probably the best way to go.

> Would this be the correct command:
>
> cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r
> DRUPAL-5 drupal

Yes.

> Thanks for the help.
>
> Shai
> content2zero <http://content2zero.com>


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