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Re: cvs new-dir Need-Update
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: cvs new-dir Need-Update |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:06:10 -0400 |
> > > > PS: In earlier versions of PCL-CVS those messages were not turned into
> > > > `Need-Update' but into mere informational messages. Such messages
> > > > are less annoying in your case, but `Need-Update' is the right
> > > > thing to do in the case of a true new directory.
> > > > The only solution I can think of is to make it a user-option,
> > > > which is rather a cop-out.
> > >
> > > CVS/Entries.Log contains the list of deleted directories.
> > > Maybe you could use it to filter out this junk altogether?
> >
> > Hmm... that would be awesome, but I can't find any such file here.
> >
> > work/emacs-1% echo **/CVS/Entries.*
> > zsh: no match
> > work/emacs-1%
> >
> > And CVS' info page indicates that Entries.Log is transient
> > and only used to deal with failure-during-update.
>
> ouch.
>
> maybe you could report this as a bug to the CVS maintainers?
> maybe you could even patch the cvs client to respect -P with -n?
It's a known bug. Feel free to try and fix it but:
1 - it's not trivial to fix.
2 - CVS maintainers don't take patches very gladly in my experience.
At least I had trouble getting them to cooperate into bringing my
patches to a good enough state.
I.e. I have better things to do.
> Emacs is a sufficiently important application for the CVS people to
> accommodate us.
They may very well disagree,
Stefan