Hi Mike, On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:58:23AM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: > > Nuno Nunes wrote: > > >I was wondering what is the best way to do something that I cannot find > >documentation for (maybe I haven't looked deep enough?). > >I want to have cvs keep track of some files in a directory where I will > >have a lot of other files appear. > >The problem is that of course I only want CVS to consider the files it > >keeps track of and I want it to ignore all the rest. > >This is something similar to what .cvsignore does only not quite: In the > >.cvsignore file I can put sh-style patters for files to be ignored but, > >since I don't know what kind of files will appear in this directory, I > >want to implement a behaviour similar to .cvsignore but where I can say > >"ignore everything except files that match these patterns". > >Is there any (standard) way of doing this? > > Am I confused? The last I looked, this was the default behavior for > CVS, provided you don't do something like `cvs add *`. That is, CVS > will see those other files, but will ignore them, since they don't > exist in the repository.
Of course you're right, this was just stupid of me, I though about it right after sending the Email, but by then it was too late (isn't this always the case?). Thanks for your answer anyway! :) Regards, -- Nuno Nunes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Public Key: http://nunonunes.online.pt/pubkey.txt
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