Dimitrie O. Paun writes:
>
> This is a bit offtopic, but why do we go to the trouble of reinventing
> the wheel in the fileattr file (i.e. the notion of a dir), instead of having
> an admin file for each file in the repository. That is, instead of having
> a fileattr file that contains info about all files (say fileA, fileB,
> fileC),
> we can have (say) a fileA.editors fileB.editors, etc in the CVS dir.
That seems like a lot of overhead for very little gain.
> So, in fact, I can delete the CVS dirs altogether? Is there a way to
> disable the editors/watchers thing without deleting the CVS dirs?
Yes, you can delete the CVS dirs altogether, or you can just delete the
fileattr files. I don't know of any way to keep people from using
editors or watchers to recreate them, though. (I suppose you could
leave the CVS directories there and change their permissions so that
noone can recreate the fileattr files.)
-Larry Jones
I've got an idea for a sit-com called "Father Knows Zilch." -- Calvin
