Re: cvsignore

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Roddie,

* On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 07:49:18PM +0000 Roddie Grant wrote:
 
> Thank you for that explanation, but I'm a bit uncertain about
> subdirectories. Will CVS only ignore the specified directory?

yes.

> Given
> "/site/logs/November/01.log" etc, and "logs" in /site/.cvsignore, will CVS
> _not_ ignore 01.log because that file is in November/, not logs/.

Yes. This is exactly how it works. CVS will only ignore it in the
current directory, nowhere else.

> Presumably it would ignore /site/logs/error.txt because that is in logs/.

Yes. But if you add logs/ manually (cvs add logs), it will not ignore
logs/error.txt anymore!

HTH,
   Spiro.

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