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up to date and issue queries against the central depository.

The major strength of CVS is that it has the ability to preform intelligent

The major strength of CVS is that it has the ability to perform intelligent

merges of changes to the central repository with changes that you make to

your local copy. This means that if you make a change to a module and

perform an update, your changes are not "blown away", rather CVS makes

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"soft fallback", in terms of providing you with annotated changes to your

local copy, preeserving an unmodified copy of your version and continuing

to update any other source modules you requested.

For people which own an OpenBSD CD, you may have seen the CVS/ dirs on there.

Actually there is a reason, the CD has a checkout of the OpenBSD src/ module

usable to continue updating from. Using this tree will result in a much

shorter initial CVS update time than a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD

source tree. There are two ways of using the CD, either copy the tree off it,

or use a union mount with the CD below a writable directory. The former can

be accomplished by this command (assuming the CD is mounted on /mnt):

<pre>

# cd /mnt; cp -Rp CVS Makefile bin distrib etc games gnu include \

><bt> kerberosIV lib libexec lkm regress sbin share sys usr.bin usr.sbin /usr/src

</pre>

The latter method requires this setup instead:

<pre>

# mount -t union -o -b /mnt /usr/Src

</pre>

After this, /usr/src will be a nice checkout area where all cvs(1) commands

will work OK.

<h4>CVS COMMAND SUMMARY</h4>

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