Re: The recursive behavior of CVS

[Larry Jones]

Reinstein, Shlomo writes:
> 
> About 2 years ago I asked about the recursive behavior of CVS. I asked how
> CVS decides whether it should recurse into a subdirectory or not, and I got
> the following reply from Larry Jones: "In general, if there's no CVS
> subdirectory in a directory or if there are no D lines in CVS/Entries, CVS
> will recurse into all of the existing subdirectories. If there are D lines
> in CVS/Entries, CVS will recurse into only those subdirectories."
> You can find the question and the reply at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg07004.html

That reply was not quite accurate.  I should have said, "will recurse
into all of the existing subdirectories *that appear to be working
directories*".  If a subdirectory doesn't contain a CVS subdirectory,
CVS will not recurse into it.

> Is this behavior limited to a single CVS repository? That is, if I have a
> directory tree that contains working directories from several repositories,
> and also non-working directories, is this algorithm still the same?

Yes, the algorithm is the same, and the subdirectories can come from any
number of different repositories.

-Larry Jones

Fortunately, that was our plan from the start. -- Calvin