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Re: CVS for System Administration and Configuration Restoral


From: Garth Winter Webb
Subject: Re: CVS for System Administration and Configuration Restoral
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:42:12 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> However I would *STRONGLY* advise against trying to use CVS to track and
> manage system configurations and I would *NEVER* use it to propogate
> system configurations.

I would have to agree.

> > Yup, you've got to import.  Thats how CVS works.  CVS does allow you to
> > define patterns to match against files you don't want imported.  What
> > would you say is an easy way to define what you don't want from a list of
> > a files?
> 
> No, you don't have to use "cvs import"  -- You can use "cvs add".

Not when the parent directory hasn't been checked into CVS yet.  I got the
impression he was trying to add a whole new tree as opposed to building on
an existing configuration.

Garth




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