Re: Ignore resources which had been committed?

[Hans Schwaebli]

I think the Linux guy once tried to update CVS and had to compile it. Afterwards nothing worked and he had to rollback.

 

You write: "Your best bet might be: Disregard using "-P" on update and checkout, and
put a .cvsignore file INTO xfolder/."

 

I use Eclipse. Eclipse cannot disregard using -P. How could it disregard? Besides that I think it is problematic that accidentally checkid in stuff cannot be excluded from CVS by a simple command, in order to be able to ignore it. Errors happen and need to be corrected in a productive and straightforward way I think. As I said, not even deleting the folder in the repository helped. You didn't say anything to this in particular.

 

By the way, are you a CVS developer?

 

> Hello Hans,
>
> * On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at
>  03:22:03AM -0700 Hans Schwaebli wrote:
> > 
> > Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
> > Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.5 (client/server)
>
> Note that both versions are rather old and full of bugs. I would highly
> recommend to update to a more recent 1.11.x version. (Although, the
> problems you are having are not related to this).
>
>
> > Concerning the commands used: The ones which Eclipse 3.2.2 uses...
> > Besides that, we have to use the CVS version which Eclipse supports.
> > The people at Eclipse don't seem to agree with the latest CVS
> > developments.
>
> Well, I do not agree with the Eclipse developments, so.... ;)
>
>
> > To exclude Eclipse from being the reason for this, I used a new
> > workspace, but the problems remained. It is not possible for me to
> > purge this information that it has been checked in once.
>
> Well, I either misunderstood you in the
>  first place, or you were not
> exact:
>
> > cvs add "/Test/src/test/xfolder"
> > Directory \CVSREP/Test/src/test/xfolder added to the repository
> > ok (took 0:00.297)
> > ***
> [...]
> > I deleted xfolder and checked it in:
>
> You CANNOT check in deleted folders. This is not even possible with SVN,
> AFAIK.
>
> What you have checked in is the removed xfolder/xfile:
>
> > ***
> > cvs ci -m -l "/Test/src/test/xfolder/xfile.txt"
> > Removing src/test/xfolder/xfile.txt;
> > \CVSREP/Test/src/test/xfolder/xfile.txt,v <-- xfile.txt
> > new revision: delete; previous revision: 1.1
> > done
> > ok (took 0:00.188)
> > ***
>
> If you would use "cvs up -d" afterwards, the folder would reappear.
> Anyway, since Eclipse seems to use "-P" additionally, xfolder/ will be
> deleted immediately.
>
>
> > Then I created the xfolder again and wanted to ignore it.
>
> Indeed, THIS is not possible. xfolder is in
>  the repository, thus, CVS
> will handle it, regardless of what you do.
>
> > But Eclipse
> > does not allow me to ignore it, but to commit it. So I created a
> > .cvsignore file and added "xfolder". But Eclipse didn't ignore it.
>
> CVS cannot ignore the directory xfolder/. .cvsignore is used for files
> and directories which are not under the control of CVS. Since xfolder/
> was checked in, it is under the control of CVS. You cannot change this.
>
>
> Your best bet might be: Disregard using "-P" on update and checkout, and
> put a .cvsignore file INTO xfolder/.
>
>
> HTH,
> Spiro.
>
> -- 
> Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/
> http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/

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