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Re: about imports and cvs update
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: about imports and cvs update |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:29:46 -0400 |
Harry Putnam writes:
>
> I don't do many imports... maybe 5-5 in the last 10 yrs..
> And never did one that was not the start of a new repository.
>
> Is it a misuse of import to use it to start a new directory hierarchy
> beneath some exiting hierarchy in CVSROOT?
Not at all -- CVS really doesn't care about the directory structure.
> On a remote machine (on home lan) I've imported a directory hierarchy
> like so:
>
> cvs import -m "some blab" base/NEW_IMPORT blah start
>
> Now, back on the local host which is also the cvs server for the home
> lan, I go to the checked out module, which hasn't been used since I
> did the import.
>
> I run `cvs -n update -dP'.. just checking.
>
> It shows no output.
Yes, that's normal.
> Shouldn't cvs be telling me about the newly imported directory
> hierarchy under `base', and be listing files needing to be updated?
Yes it should, but the way the CVS code is structured prevents update
with -n from doing everything that it does without the -n. Actually
running the update (without the -n) will do the right thing.
--
Larry Jones
Oh, now YOU'RE going to start in on me TOO, huh? -- Calvin
- Re: about imports and cvs update, (continued)
- Re: about imports and cvs update, Michael Haggerty, 2010/03/17
- Re: about imports and cvs update, Spiro Trikaliotis, 2010/03/17
- Re: about imports and cvs update, Harry Putnam, 2010/03/18
- Re: about imports and cvs update, Spiro Trikaliotis, 2010/03/20
- Re: about imports and cvs update, Michael Haggerty, 2010/03/14
- Re: about imports and cvs update, Harry Putnam, 2010/03/14
Re: about imports and cvs update,
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