Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, March 7, 2000 at 09:39:03 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/06/2000 04:34:02 PM
> > Once again CVS admin directories will be created where necessary and the
> > file specified will be marked as "added", just as the user requests
> > (i.e. dir/CVS *and* dir1/CVS will be created).
> 
> I guess I should've been more ambiguous with the above commands ;)

I'm sure you mean "more explicit"....  Lack of a comand-line argument
isn't "ambiguous" -- it has an extremely well defined meaning.

>  What if the
> final lines were "cvs add" instead of "cvs add file"?

Now that's a good question.

Although I would lean towards honouring the "add" request, it might be
prudent to at least print a warning message indicating that the
directory would normally have been ignored if it had been traversed from
the "root" of the module instead of from within itself....

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