[ On Tuesday, March 7, 2000 at 09:47:39 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....
>
> No, Greg, you're confusing the term "operate on" with "version". Just 'cos CVS
> *operates on* directories doesn't mean it *versions* them. The is very true of
> "cvs watch". "cvs watch" *operates on* directories though it doesn't *version*
> them.
Like I said, no matter how much you might personally desire this to be
true, it simply isn't. "cvs watch somedir" does not "operate on" a
directory any more than "cvs commit somedir" does. It does record some
state in the repository so that future actions will trigger the watch,
and yes, it does do that "in a directory", but the details are not
important. Please don't confuse the concepts with the internal details.
> Now that (I hope) we have definitions all straightened out, it should be clear
> that "cvs watch" must operate on directories in order for CVS to watch future
> files. Again, this is very similar to setgid on directories -- new files don't
> have setgid set on them, but new subdirectories do.
You're off in your own version of hyperspace again (still?) Noel.....
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