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Updating Your Working Directory

• to get changes to the repository since you checked it out

•      cvs update
       

• Lists all files in your working directory, with prefix:

  • U (or P): brought Up to date (possibly by a Patch)
  • A: to be Added
  • R: to be Removed
  • M: Modified in your working directory (possibly with changes Merged in)
  • C: Conflicting changes -- resolve them manually
  • ?: not source-controlled

  Recommendation: cvs -n update

  • Lists files without changing anything.

  Option: cvs update -I \*.class -I \*~

  • Ignores certain types of files