From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 15 11:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5E337B417 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:49:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0124.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.124] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16FKoA-00021t-00; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:49:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1BA93C.D732C8C6@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:49:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: What's the purpose of "Attic" in CVS? References: <20011215131208.A39406@sheol.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Hello All. > > The subject asks it all. Sorry if this is off-topic. I won't answer the other questions because they were already answered. The subject question, though.. The "Attic" is the directory where deleted files are moved. This is necessary, since a soruce code control system can be used to create the current version of the software... or the software from last month, where there used to be a seperate "ftp.c" instead of "a magic Makefile"... or the software as as it existed for the 3.1-RELEASE. For this to work, it has to be able to access instances of files which have been deleted or moved... so it looks in the directory where the files should be, except in the "Attic" subdirectory. You should really read the CVS FAQ... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message