Re: Noisy CVS updates

"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> (Personally, I never do "cvs update" without "make distclean" first;
>> there are too many other ways to get screwed by updating a live build
>> tree.)

> I assume that you are talking about conflicts.  In fact, that's one of
> the main reasons for wanting a quiet update so that I can catch those
> right away when I am working on some files.  I do an automatic update
> daily to keep current with the head. I don't do a "make distclean"
> first because I may be working on something and I want to keep the
> changes in the tree to try stuff and report patches against HEAD.

Huh?  distclean does not remove any source-code changes, only derived
files.
        regards, tom lane