Re: Question about convenient and automated committing

[Sergei Organov]

[ Please don't top-post! ]

Hans Schwaebli <address@hidden> writes:
> Am I misunderstanding you or are you misunderstanding me?
>   Please try to get out of your CVS implementation thinking and open
>   your mind to this: There is a directory with subdirectories and
>   files which has been previously checked in. Now imagine some random
>   changes afterwards in this directory like:
>
> - subdirectories have been added

Adding files in CVS is yet another story, so for simplicity let's avoid
mixing different issues.

> - some subdirectories have been deleted, which have been previously
>   checked in

This was a mistake. You should not delete subdirectories, -- just delete
all the regular files in them. [BTW, you have no way to check in
directories with CVS, so your "previously checked in" above makes no
sense.]

If you do delete (sub)directory, CVS thinks you just don't like to see
it in this particular working tree (it is sometimes useful indeed). It
won't recognize deleted (sub)directories as a change. That's how things
are with CVS.

-- Sergei.