Michel-Ange Camhi writes:
>
> We're using CVS in remote connection mode via rsh, and we'd like to
> setup an ignore list for a whole repository, using the
> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore file.
[...]
> But this setting is completely... ignored! *.o and *.a files, for
> example, are ignored at cvs import.
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore doesn't work quite right in client/server
mode. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for the client to get
the contents of $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore from the server, so the
server's ignore list can only augment the client's ignore list, not
override it. The client only uses the built-in defaults, ~/.cvsignore,
and any per-directory .cvsignore files.
-Larry Jones
This game lends itself to certain abuses. -- Calvin
