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Re: Exempt files from version control
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Exempt files from version control |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:06:09 -0400 (EDT) |
Jan-Georg Smaus writes:
>
> how can I tell cvs to leave a file alone, i.e., to ignore it in
> "cvs update" and "cvs commit" commands? That is to say, I got the file
> from the Repository using "cvs update", I customized the file for my
> purposes, and now I want to keep this personal version of the file. I
> don't want the rest of the world to notice my changes, and I don't want
> my file to be modified anymore by the rest of the world.
You can't. But if you explicitly update that file to the revision you
checked out, you'll give it a sticky tag that will prevent CVS from
trying to update it and will cause CVS to complain if you try to commit
it.
-Larry Jones
Everything's gotta have rules, rules, rules! -- Calvin