Re: cvs add <directory>

[Phil R Lawrence]

Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Yes, unfortunately though people seem to think for some bizarre reason
> that directories contain something interesting other than just files and
> thus they seem to want to version them, but fortunately they are
> completely mistaken, or have been mislead by stupid unnecessary features
> in other similar tools.  It all stems from the fact that far too many
> people are using _very_ wrong tools for the jobs they think they're
> trying to do.

Hold on there!  We were unable to use CVS because it could not version 
our directories...  I consider it a major deficiency.

I gather that most people use CVS to version their c projects, etc... 
normal things that you compile and release.

But we were hoping to version our production ERP directory tree.  Most 
of our work involves one-at-a-time script 
manipulation/addition/deletion.  A major downfall was CVS inability to 
handle (and reproduce upon checkout) hard and soft links from that dir 
structure.

We never did find a tool that could do this, and settled on just RCS'ing 
individual files.  But that really sucks.  I had hoped i could check out 
a complete, functioning tree (links and all, dir structure as of a 
certain release, etc.) on a test machine for practicing vendor upgrade 
scripts.  It would have been sweet.

Phil R Lawrence