[ On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 09:18:18 (-0500), John Macdonald wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....
>
> Oh? When is the last time that you had to create a directory in the
> repository so that it would accept a file in that directory that you
> had created in the work area? When is the last time you had to
> create a directory in your work area to accept files when you did a
> checkout? CVS does manage directories during its operations.
John please don't use such rhetoric in this thread.
Yes the current *BROKEN* implementation of 'cvs add' requires that users
think about how directories are manged.
The whole point of this thread was to discuss the fine points of a
proposal that will correct this bug.
> If directories were totally unsupported, the -P option would be
> totally meaningless because CVS would never be creating directories
> in the first place so they would never end up being empty.
Ah, yes. '-d' and '-P' More abominations that must be cleaned up and
the sooner the better. As I've already said this cleanup was originally
promised for the 1.5 release as early as 1994 but it slipped thorugh the
cracks because release management was handed over to someone else.
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