On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, gilmurra wrote: > I don't understand why the -D <date> option to checkout also implies -P. > Can anyone explain this to me? This is not idle curiosity; I have a > situation where I need -D <date> and an empty directory. Is there a way > to override the implied -P?
If you need a directory to exist regardless of -P, then you have to use some trick, like storing an empty file in it which has a visible version as of the -D date or -r tag that you are checking out. If you make that file now, its newly created 1.1 version will be out of range for an old -D date, so the trick won't work. You can hand-edit the RCS file to give that version an old date, and also any branch or version tags needed to ``fake out'' its history, so that the empty directory gets created when these symbolic revisions are used. -- Meta-CVS: directory structure versioning; versioned symbolic links; versioned execute permission; versioned property lists; easy branching and merging and third party code tracking; all implemented over the standard CVS command line client -- http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
