Re: ***glaring*** flaw in cvs import?

[Pierre Asselin]

Robert P. J. Day <address@hidden> wrote:

>    following the instructions in "tracking third-party sources", i 
> downloaded a kernel source tree that i both want to update regularly 
> from the source, and make local changes to.

>    i pulled down the tree, cleared out all CVS directories to turn it 
> into a regular directory tree, then used "cvs import" to check it into 
> my local repo.

Ok, so you checked out a tree from a public CVS server and you want
to import that locally.  You don't have to remove the CVS/
subdirectories.  See below.

>    in the process of doing that import, the "cvs" command apparently 
> decided it didn't much care for the kernel source directory 
> net/bridge/core, and threw it away!  why?  because it's called "core"?

Because 'core' is in the default ignore list.  I usually reset the
ignore list to just 'CVS', like this,

    cvs import -I! -ICVS <path> VENDOR <release-tag>

and then check out a fresh sandbox somewhere else.

You can keep the original external sandbox untouched;  that way, you
can update it from the public CVS server and reimport any deltas to
your internal server.


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