Re: location of /CVS/ directories

[Mark Harrison]

Ken Versteeg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Due to an application which is incapable of ignoring CVS directories, I
> have a need to 'hide' the /CVS/ directories in my development source
> tree.  I'm wondering if there is a CVS setting which I could use to put
> the /CVS/ directories into another location (i.e. a directory structure
> which mirrors the one I'm working in?  Is there any way to control the
> location of the /CVS/ directories?

There's not an automatic way to do it.
I had a similar situation, and wrote a cvs wrapper that would
shuffle the directories around.

>From memory, it went something like this:

TOP=/home/markh/fresh2
BKUP=$TOP/../fresh2-cvs-backup

# restore the cvs directories to their correct place

cd $BKUP
for i in `find . -name CVS -print|sort`;do
    b=`dirname $i`
    mv $i $TOP/$b
    echo mv $i $TOP/$b
done

# now do the cvs command

cvs $*

# move the cvs directories away
# (you have to do this one time in the beginning to
# initialize the BKUP dir)

cd $TOP
mkdir -p $BKUP
for i in `find . -name CVS -print|sort`;do
    b=`dirname $i`
    mkdir -p $BKUP/$b
    echo mv $i $BKUP/$b
    mv $i $BKUP/$b
done

HTH,
Mark