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Re: cvs add <directory>
From: |
Max Bowsher |
Subject: |
Re: cvs add <directory> |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2003 22:19:48 +0100 |
Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:42:47 (-0700), Kaz Kylheku wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: cvs add <directory>
>>
>> In Meta-CVS, I took the approach that directories are simply just an
>> implementation choice in a filesystem to support hierarchically
>> organized path names.
>
> Why bother? What a total waste of time and energy, and complete
> perversion of one of the primary design goals of CVS.
>
> CVS already ensures that a directory will exist in the workspace
> whenever it needs to (provided of course that your users are smart
> enough to always use the right options in their ~/.cvsrc -- i.e. the
> options that should have been the defaults in CVS, or at least CVS-II,
> from day one).
...
> CVS keeps things simple by automatically managing directories, and even
> files to some extent, allowing the user to focus on their content. This
> fulfils a primary design goal of CVS: to keep out of the way as much as
> possible.
CVS's handling of directories would be elegant *if* we could use "co -P" and
"update -dP" *all the time*.
Unfortunately, trying to do so prevents the use of certain complex modules
arrangements: specifically when a module name expands to some files in a
toplevel directory, and certain subdirectories within that toplevel.
With -d, the intent of the module is destroyed - *every* subdirectory within
the toplevel is fetched on update. (Example: the src repository at
sources.redhat.com)
This problem could probably be mostly solved by making CVS fetch new
directories by default (even without -d) *unless* CVS/Entries.Static
exists - i.e., make the "should I create new objects" criteria identical for
files and directories. I can't imagine this being a problem for anyone -
unless there is a valid reason for *not* wanting directories added to the
repository to be created on the client? Can anyone think of one?
Max.
- Re: cvs add <directory>, (continued)
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Ross Patterson, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Larry Jones, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Mark D. Baushke, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Larry Jones, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Mark D. Baushke, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Kaz Kylheku, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>,
Max Bowsher <=
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Max Bowsher, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Remi Gurski, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Max Bowsher, 2003/05/24
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Phil R Lawrence, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Donald Sharp, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Shankar Unni, 2003/05/23
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Paul Sander, 2003/05/23