Jason and others,<br><br>Thank you so much,<br><br>I've followed my plan, reinforced by your "yes" comments.<br><br>The only thing that surprised me a bit is that what was installed was 5.8-dev, not 5.7. <br>
<br>There isn't anything unstable or experimental about 5.8-dev, is there? <br><br>My goals are to:<br>1. use CVS for more convenient updating<br>2. use the latest stable version Drupal that has the modules I need.<br>
<br>I hope these goals are not incompatible.<br><br>thanks again for the reassurance,<br><br>Shai<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Flatt</b> <<a href="mailto:drupal@oadaeh.net">drupal@oadaeh.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Saturday, February 2 2008 7:51:07 pm Shai Gluskin wrote:<br>> Drupalers,<br>><br>> I'm new to using CVS for checking out Drupal. I just tried to update an<br>> installation that I had installed via a CVS checkout.<br>
><br>> Via the command line, and in the drupal directory, I typed:<br>> cvs update -dP<br>><br>> I was pleased to see some messages from the terminal that led me to believe<br>> it was a successful update. But after it was done, my site was still 5.3,<br>
> like it was before the update.<br>><br>> Based on my limited knowledge of CVS, I think the problem might have been<br>> with my original CVS command, which was:<br>><br>> cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r<br>
> DRUPAL-5-3 drupal<br>><br>><br>> Is this essentially impossible to update since I explicitly wrote 5-3?<br><br>You could go into each CVS directory and edit each Tag file to remove<br>the "-3", but I'm not actually sure that would work, and there are a lot of<br>
them.<br><br>> Should I just have written Drupal-5 to get the latest version of the Drupal<br>> 5 branch which would then be updatable with the cvs update command?<br><br>Yes.<br><br>> Do I need to start over with a fresh CVS checkout?<br>
<br>That's probably the best way to go.<br><br>> Would this be the correct command:<br>><br>> cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r<br>> DRUPAL-5 drupal<br><br>Yes.<br><br>
> Thanks for the help.<br>><br>> Shai<br>> content2zero <<a href="http://content2zero.com">http://content2zero.com</a>><br><br><br>--<br>Jason Flatt<br><a href="http://www.oadaeh.net/">http://www.oadaeh.net/</a><br>
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