[ On Thursday, March 9, 2000 at 10:11:25 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/08/2000 04:27:12 PM
> >[ 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....
> >> 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....
>
> I was leaning towards the opposite, namely honouring the .cvsignore. It
> shouldn't be too difficult either. As CVS is looking for the ancestor CVS admin
> subdirectory, it should check to see if any ancestor directories is listed in
> any of the .cvsignore files it finds. If any do, the "cvs add" should be
> abandoned.
However the implication of actually being within the "previously thought
to be ignored" directory when calling upon CVS is that one actually does
really want to add the files in "this" directory. As I say I can see
why a warning might be handy, but given the relatively innocuous effect
I don't see why it should be disallowed.
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Greg A. Woods
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