Re: How to detect missing CVS directories

[Arnon Weinberg]

> They wont accidentally
> delete a CVS directory, if they are required to checkin code once a day
>    

That answers my question.  Running:
>//cd//
>cvs -n commit
...
cvs commit: in directory directory/pwd
cvs [commit aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first

does a fine job of detecting missing CVS directories, as desired.  Thank 
you Arthur.

> to restore the missing 'CVS'
> directories.  Ie:
> * checkout the tree again, or
>    

The error message from cvs commit suggests the same thing, however as 
per my earlier example, this doesn't work, unless I'm doing it wrong.

One solution I found is to temporarily rename the containing directory:
>cd ..
>mv pwd pwd.bak
>/cvs checkout -A -d ~/directory module/
>mv pwd/CVS pwd.bak
>rm -rf pwd
>mv pwd.bak pwd

Let me know if there is a simpler solution that I'm overlooking.


Arnon Weinberg
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