"Simo Muinonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > James Keeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since the RCS repository appends a ",v" to each repository file, if I > import > > a repository from RCS into CVS, the files will have this extension. When > I > > create a workspace, should this extension not be stripped off (or do I > need > > to remove it for each and every file)? > > Note that in the process described in the manual you are not importing RCS > repository files using the "cvs import" command but by copying the > repository > ",v" files directly into the CVS repository. See the difference? In the > case > when the files are directly copied, when you later create a workspace using > "cvs checkout", CVS will extract the desired versions of the files without > the > ",v" suffix based on the history stored in the repository files, in the same > way > as RCS would handle its repository files. But if you used "cvs import" to > add > RCS repository files, you would attempting to track the revisions of those > ",v" > files, not the original files, so you would presumably get ",v" files out. > > > Simo Muinonen
Ah, cheers Simo! _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
