Re: cvs doesn't import empty directories

[Mike Castle]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:56:16AM -0700, Stephen Rasku wrote:
> I suspect that this is by design but it isn't mentioned in the 
> documentation in the import sections and it should be.  

It's mentioned in the section about add.  But not surprised not mentioned
in import section anywhere.

> Is there any way to force it to include these empty directories (short 
> of placing a file there to make it non-empty)?  I am using CVS 1.11.1.

Nope.  That's one of the usual recommended solutions.

The better solution is that creating directories like this is the
responsibility of the build process.

mrc
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