Re: "cvs commit" features

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 07:41:59 (+0200), Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: ]
> Subject: "cvs commit" features
>
> 1. An option to make "commit" ask you if you'd like to get rid of files that
> exist in the repository but not in your working directory, and possibly
> specify on the command-line which files to remove (or have the "commit" ask
> you for each file or for each file extension).

If you're already writing wrapper scripts then one to do that is nearly
trivial to write using 'cvs -nq update'.

> 2. An option to make "commit" ask you if you'd like to add files that exist
> in your working directory but not in the repository, and possibly specify on
> the command-line which files to add  (or have the "commit" ask you for each
> file or for each file extension).

Once again that's an almost trivial wrapper script to write.

> Of course, a user can always use "cvs add" and "cvs remove" to add or remove
> files,

Indeed one can and one should.

> but these two options can help him/her make sure they didn't forget
> to do this for some of the files.

No, not really.  Think of the CVS sub-commands as verbs for your wrapper
scripts and use them that way.  You don't want complex verbs that
confuse the meaning of what's really going on.

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