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RE: cvs add <directory>
From: |
Paul Sander |
Subject: |
RE: cvs add <directory> |
Date: |
Sat, 24 May 2003 09:54:53 -0700 |
>--- Forwarded mail from address@hidden
>[ On Friday, May 23, 2003 at 22:02:55 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
>> Subject: RE: cvs add <directory>
>>
>> Your claim is not correct. Directories CAN be versioned, even using an
>> underlying shared, file-based repository system, even if it uses RCS.
>OK, yes, directories can be versioned.
>However directories cannot possibly ever be versioned with any
>meaningful and useful result in any system even remotely like CVS. It
>is simply not conceptually or logically possible. If you think so then
>you are very confused. There is simply nothing there that needs to be
>"versioned". Anything you think you see is a figment of your imagination.
This claim is also incorrect. It *is* possible to do the following:
- version the modules database.
- add an RCS file identifier to the CVS/Entries file.
- add a more flexible computation to write the RCS file identifiers in the
CVS/Entries file.
The result would be *very* similar to CVS.
>--- End of forwarded message from address@hidden
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