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

[Glew, Andy]

> Not true.  if there is a subdirectory that contains files 
> from a different repository than its parent and a recursive 
> cvs command is executed from the parent, the client will 
> not switch repositories during the command
> execution.  I havent tried this, but I would guess that the 
> best you could hope for is that files in the other 
> repository directory would cause the server to abort 
> an update with an error.  I could see how such files would
> simply be added to the poarent's repository though.
> 
> Rex.



Woah, this is pretty scary - the possibility that recursive
CVS operations may not check for change of repository in a tree.

Testing:

* on (locally mounted network) filesystem CVS 
  (I only rarely use remote CVS)

* created directory A from repository rA,
        and subdirectory A/B from repository rB

* cvs status seems to work

* cvs diff seems to work, with diffs in both repositories

* cvs update seems to work, reporting changes

* I haven't tried cvs ci yet, since I don't own the second
        repositopry.

Now, it seems quite likely that this may work for filesystem
CVS but not for remote CVS (or for mixes of the two).