Question about "cvs update"

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:49:56PM +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> "cvs update -d" will make the src directory include a lot of other
> softwares like binutils, sid and so on.
> 
> I want keep the directory just have the file of GDB.  I tried "cvs
> update -dP".  But it still tried to checkout the files of other
> softwares.
> 
> Could someone tell me how to update the all src directory and do not
> co the files of other softwares.

I cheat, like this:

cd gdb-checkout
ln -s . src
cvs co gdb

That will check out gdb using the same tag and cvsroot that was
previously used.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery