I wonder if this could be solved by modifying the behaviour of .cvsignore - if we could tell CVS to ignore *files* named 'core' but not *directories* named 'core', then the problem would go away altogether.
We still need a way to ignore directories, though. For example, I don't want to save those "Debug" and "Release" directories generated by MS Visual Studio.
Perhaps the problem is that there is a built-in "cvsignore" list. Judging by messages to this mailing list, people seem to be surprised by cvs behavior due to this built-in list more often than behavior due to a CVSROOT/cvsignore list that they added themselves.
At 12:23 PM 5/10/2004, Schrum, Allan (Allan) wrote:
Such as
core
for files and
core/
for directories?
This is a reasonable approach. It doesn't address the "surprise" issue, but it does allow directories to be ignored.
Fred
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