Re: Ignoring everything *but* a list of flies

[Mike Ayers]

Nuno Nunes wrote:

> I was wondering what is the best way to do something that I cannot find 
> documentation for (maybe I haven't looked deep enough?).
> I want to have cvs keep track of some files in a directory where I will have a 
> lot of other files appear.
> The problem is that of course I only want CVS to consider the files it keeps 
> track of and I want it to ignore all the rest.
> This is something similar to what .cvsignore does only not quite: In the .cvsignore file 
> I can put sh-style patters for files to be ignored but, since I don't know what kind of 
> files will appear in this directory, I want to implement a behaviour similar to 
> .cvsignore but where I can say "ignore everything except files that match these 
> patterns".
> Is there any (standard) way of doing this?

	Am I confused?  The last I looked, this was the default behavior for 
CVS, provided you don't do something like `cvs add *`.  That is, CVS 
will see those other files, but will ignore them, since they don't 
exist in the repository.


/|/|ike