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>5.6. Code Updates</H1
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> Code changes are made fairly frequently in the CVS repository.
Announcements of this are automatically sent to the lvm-commit
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> You can update your copy of the sources to match the master
repository with the update command. It is not necessary to check
out a new copy. Using update is significantly faster and simpler,
as it will download only patches instead of entire files and update
only those files that have changed since your last update. It will
automatically merge any changes in the CVS repository with any
local changes you have made as well. Just cd to the directory you'd
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> If you did not specify a tag when you checked out the source, this
will update your sources to the latest version on the main branch.
If you specified a branch tag, it will update to the latest version
on that branch. If you specified a version tag, it will not do
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