Re: cvsignore-ing everything but .cvsignore

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:30:31PM -0500, Jack Baty wrote:
> My problem is that I don't know if there's a way to cvsignore all files
> *except* the .cvsignore file within each directory.

Put an entry "*" in .cvsignore.

If a file is already CVS-tracked, that takes priority over a
.cvsignore entry saying to ignore it.  Basically, a .cvsignore
entry for "foo" says not to print "? foo" lines during updates,
if foo is not already CVS-tracked.

If foo *is* already CVS-tracked, it will *not* be ignored,
despite the .cvsignore entry.  I tested this with checkout,
update, commit, and tag; not sure if it's true for other
commands.

One command that I know is different is import.  It'll ignore all
files with matching .cvsignore entries(*), whether or not they're
already CVS-tracked.

* I mean by this, entries in the .cvsignore file in the directory
  being imported.  I don't know whether the corresponding
  .cvsignore,v in the repo has any effect.

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