Changeset 417 for trunk/confman.8.in

Timestamp:

09/18/2009 13:08:17 (3 years ago)

Author:

ccowart

Message:

Passing arguments to "svn update" via confman update.

Needs to be merged to 1.9.

See #60

File:

• trunk/confman.8.in (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/confman.8.in

@@ -110 +110 @@
 .Nm .
 It will check out your working copy. setup takes no additional arguments.
-.It Cm update
+.It Cm update [ Ar options ]
 The update command will update all the modules in your working copy. This
-command does not alter the repository or the system.
+Any options specified will be passed directly to 
+.Xr svn 1 . This can be used
+for updating your working copy to an older revision. 
+
+For example, you could use `confman update -r '{20090801}' www` to look at the
+state of the module named `www' as of 1 August 2009. This will re-add any
+deleted files and delete any added files from your working copy (This is
+simplest if you have commited any outstanding changes, but subversion is good
+about not deleting work-in-progress -- the errors can just be confusing). 
+
+Note that before any install or commit operation, there is an implicit update
+that will cause the latest repository revision to be reflected in your working
+copy.  command does not alter the repository or the system.
 .It Cm commit
 The commit command causes your changes to take effect.