You should be careful when adding files/dirs, as it has happened to me that
the files got placed in "Emptydir" instead of where I expected. For some
reason, if a module defined as
dir2 dir1/dir2
is defined, and then I isssue the command "cvs co dir2/dir3", for some
reason, "dir2/CVS/Repository" points to Emptydir, and not dir1/dir2 as I
would expect. Beware.
Cheers,
Nestor
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Subject: Re: Emptydir
Jesper writes:
>
> I get a strange directory 'Emptydir' created in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/Emptydir
> when I import to CVS (in this case, I did it from WinCVS to a
> RH6.1/cvs1.10.6 server).
> Can anyone tell me more about this?
CVSROOT/Emptydir is a placeholder that's used in a sandbox's
CVS/Repository file when the directory doesn't correspond to any real
directory in the repository. Older versions of CVS just created it when
needed, but that occasionally ran into permission problems so CVS 1.10.8
and newer also create it when you do ``cvs init''.
-Larry Jones
I never get to do anything fun. -- Calvin
