What does a status of "P" mean during a Tortoise CVS Update operation?

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cmcculloh picture cmcculloh · Nov 30, 2009 · Viewed 15.6k times · Source

I ran an "Update" command on a folder with TortoiseCVS and one of the file statuses is "P". What does that mean? I see "U" which I'm assuming means "Update" and "M" which I'm assuming means "Merge". I tried to open the help file but I'm just getting 404s, so I think the firewall at my office is blocking the help contents...

Here's a screenshot of what I'm seeing: alt text
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Answer

martin clayton picture martin clayton · Nov 30, 2009

It's equivalent to a 'U', but CVS figured that sending a patch rather than the whole updated file would be smaller.

I couldn't quickly find a fuller explanation, but here's a table of codes.

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