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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, March 6, 2000 at 15:17:02 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....
>
> Although "cvs watch dir" won't actually watch "dir", it does do
> something with (ie operate on) the directory (namely, keep track of it for
> future use).  There is absolutely no way "cvs watch dir" can work on future
> elements of "dir" if it didn't do this, no matter what the implementation of it
> is.

You're so confused over the concepts vs. what the implementation does in
order to make things happen that you're blind to the fact that "cvs
watch" cannot operate on directories, no matter how much you might want
it to!  There is no ,v file for a directory -- there are only ,v files
for (surprise) *files*!  CVS is a time machine -- it remembers state in
many ways.  The trick with "cvs watch dir" being only one extremely
minor side-show miracle it performs.

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                                                        Greg A. Woods

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