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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:11:22 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs question
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On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 03:00:57PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> I've made modifications to a small part of my checked out src tree that
> I don't want cvs to reset on me when I do an update.  I remember
> something about using a .cvsignore file, but I don't see anything like
> what I seem to recall in the man page.

What do you mean 'reset'?  CVS don't "reset" anything for, it just
display questionmarks saying that it doesn't know anything about those
files.

> I _think_ it was something like sticking an empty .cvsignore file in the
> top directory of the stuff I want ignored.  Do I have it right?

~/.cvsignore contains filenames that should be ignored no matter what
dir they are in, one per line.

<sourcedir>/.cvsignore contains filenames that should be ignored in
_that_ directory, one per line.

Eivind.

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