Re: cvs release and symbolic links

[Marinalva Dias Soares]

CVS release remove the directory and don't create release. For this, you
have to use cvs tag or rtag, see the manual Cederqvist,ok?

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Carmelo Pisani wrote:

> 
> We have some source which requires symbolic links. As CVS does
> not store symbolic links we have module checkout and
> export scripts create them.
> 
> All this works fine, however when it comes to saying cvs release -d
> we get errors like
> 
> bash> cvs release GATBASELINE 
> ? tmp
> ? msl
> ? log
> ? bin
> ? shlib
> ? config
> ? maps
> ? user
> You have [0] altered files in this repository.
> Are you sure you want to release (and delete) directory `GATBASELINE':
> yes
> cvs release: deletion of directory GATBASELINE failed: Not a directory
> 
> and the working copy is only partially removed.
> 
> As far as I can tell there are no trigger scripts for cvs release.
> 
> Is there a way around this apart from manually removing the
> links first?
> 
> Using cvs 1.10.8
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Carmelo
> 
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