They wont accidentally
delete a CVS directory, if they are required to checkin code once a day
That answers my question. Running:
>//cd//
>cvs -n commit
...
cvs commit: in directory directory/pwd
cvs [commit aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first
does a fine job of detecting missing CVS directories, as desired. Thank
you Arthur.
to restore the missing 'CVS'
directories. Ie:
* checkout the tree again, or
The error message from cvs commit suggests the same thing, however as
per my earlier example, this doesn't work, unless I'm doing it wrong.
One solution I found is to temporarily rename the containing directory:
>cd ..
>mv pwd pwd.bak
>/cvs checkout -A -d ~/directory module/
>mv pwd/CVS pwd.bak
>rm -rf pwd
>mv pwd.bak pwd
Let me know if there is a simpler solution that I'm overlooking.
Arnon Weinberg
www.back2front.ca
