[ On Thursday, February 17, 2000 at 06:56:39 (-0800), Alex Chaffee wrote: ]
> Subject: cvs add *
>
> I'm afraid to bring up a new thread involving "cvs add." Please don't
> anyone start saying mean things about my family, OK?
OK! :-)
> Are there any special reasons why "cvs add" aborts for extant
> directories, but not for extant files?
Basically for the same reason that it now requires you to add
directories explicitly -- the error checking is rather brutal but
effective. In theory I suppose it might be possible to change the fatal
error into warning, but that might not be as easy to actually do as it
seems it should be on the surface.
With my version you won't need the external recursion control and of
course directories will just be entered into and won't be explicitly
added themselves any more.
> Are there plans for cvs to do more strict argument checking to make
> sure you're not mistakenly messing with the magic CVS directory?
My proposal deals with this issue automatically too.....
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