I'm hoping that someone can suggest what I can do next.
I have CVS 1.10 on a sun unix box. I am using it 'directly' (i.e.
not client/server). I imported a large and heavily edited project and
was surprised to see a lot of *~ files end up in the repository. This
seems to contradict the documentation which implies an inescapable,
built-in list of files which will be ignored (don't get me wrong ...
I'm not trying to escape this mechanism ... given the number of
'fluff' files emacs can generate, I -want- this mechanism to work!)
I experimented. I put a cvsignore file in the CVSROOT administrator
files. *~ files could still be imported. I deliberately 'cvs add'ed
a (fake) <stuff>~ file. The file was added successfully.
On the other hand, putting a .cvsignore file in project directories
before 'cvs import' -does- suppress the the import of files.
I checked with our computer centre. They assure me that our cvs
installation is vanilla. So I am at a loss. Am I doing something
amazingly stupid?
Tony Waite.
