Re: CVS'ing home directory files; CVS in place

[Rex_Jolliff]

Kalle Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/03/2000 03:29:20 PM
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                


                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
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>What was hard about it Greg?  I've been using CVS to manage system
>configuration files for two years now.  I use a unique repository
>that only root can read/write.  The only draw back is that I have CVS
>directories all over my OS.  I use Red Hat 6.2 Linux 2.2.14-5.0 and
>CVS 1.10.7.

CVS does not handle permissions or symlinks very well.  Also, it's just
a plain bad idea to try to manage production targets with CVS.  If you
feel you must use CVS to manage such files (I would suggest sccs or rcs),
then at least create a working directory and use make to deploy the
files into their production locations.

Rex.