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Re: Empty Directories and Tags
From: |
Derek R. Price |
Subject: |
Re: Empty Directories and Tags |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:29:27 -0500 |
Stephen Rasku wrote:
> Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >It seems that empty directories are not checked out when you checkout
> using
> >the -r option to specify a tag. Is this a known bug or feature? Any
> >workaround available?
>
> It's a feature. CVS assumes that the directory is empty because that
> module doesn't exist on that branch. The workaround is to have your
> build system to make these empty directories if they are required.
Or to check in an empty .cvsignore file or the like into the directory as
a placeholder.
Derek
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