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Re: new ForceImportKillNewFiles 'config' option.


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: new ForceImportKillNewFiles 'config' option.
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:26:15 -0400 (EDT)

Mark D. Baushke writes:
> 
> While I am in favor of allowing the repository maintainer to specify
> 'cvs import -X' as the default behavior of 'cvs import', I am not
> fond of the ForceImportKillNewFiles option as the name.

Neither am I.  I'm particularly bothered by the "KillNewFiles" -- I know
where it came from, but it has entirely the wrong connotation to anyone
who's not intimately familiar with with CVS internals.  Import is
supposed to import new files, not kill them!

-Larry Jones

It works on the same principle as electroshock therapy. -- Calvin




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