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:
(source: chomperstomp.com)
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:
Code Meaning Description
? what? It's not a file in CVS. CVS knows nothing about this file
A Added This is a file you just added to CVS but not yet committed.
You have to commit it before others can see it.
C Conflicted A Conflict occurred when you did CVS update.
The conflicted lines are marked with special
characters and you need to manually resolve
the conflicts.
M Modified You have modified this file.
It's different from what's in CVS and you need to
commit (check in) the file to persist your changes in CVS.
P Patched This file was patched when you did CVS update.
The effect is the same as U (update),
but the changes were so small that CVS decided
to send a patch (P) instead of a whole file (U).
U Updated This file was updated when you ran CVS update.
It could be a file that already existed on the local drive,
or a new file brought down from the CVS repository.
R Removed You asked CVS to remove this file but you haven't
committed the removal.