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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 21:32:13 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject: Re: cvs vs deleted repositories
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>> `cvs update' in /usr/src aborted due to deleted Attics in sys/i386/isa/pcvt
>> and elsewhere.  I think the old version of cvs continued after finding such
>> problems.  It is annoying for a long update to abort in the middle.

>I take it that this happened on your local machine, since FreeFall and
>all of my tree's updated just fine here.  Did you perhaps not use the -P

It happened locally and to old checked out stuff on freefall.

>option when you did the cvs co so that actually had these empty directories
>around in your checked out copy?

>It should not have even tried to traverse into there unless you failed to
>use cvs co -P and cvs update -P in the past.  If you are not using these
>options, please reconsider!!

I didn't even know about the -P option but I thought Rod might tell me :-).
... `cvs co -P src/gnu/usr.bin/ogroff' gets rid of all the stub directories
in ogroff but not ogroff/CVS.  Why isn't -P the default?

Bruce