From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 24 22:10:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA24556 for current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA24549 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00816; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704250510.WAA00816@austin.polstra.com> To: terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP* Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199704222220.PAA27567@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199704222220.PAA27567@phaeton.artisoft.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:10:04 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199704222220.PAA27567@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > in it. See the cvsup manpage section on refuse files. > > > > Well, the man page is not bvery useful, It's true, the section on the refuse files needs some fleshing out and some examples. But hey, given that you're the guy who can churn out thousands of words a day here in these lists, why don't you write something up and send it to me? ;-) > > but I set the refuse pattern > > and it worked (mostly). You apparently *must* use a wildcard in the > > pattern I think that for the Attic, and only for the Attic, you have to specify 2 patterns: */Attic */Attic/* This is a bug, but it's a forgivable bug (says the bugger :-) once you fully understand what's going on behind the scenes in order to match up the living files with their Attic counterparts. The Attic is very special. > > (real pain). Gimme a break. > > There are still some Attic files it graps, though... If you use the above two patterns, I don't think it grabs any Attic files at all. > Well, it looks like it grabs all Attic directories under the main > directory anyway. What do you mean by "main directory?" /home/ncvs? There isn't an Attic directory directly under /home/ncvs. And any Attic directories lower down will get culled by the patterns above. But as has been pointed out, you really don't want to suppress the Attic files. They're just too essential to the proper working of CVS. > What a bunch of crap. Why weren't these files > actually *moved* instead of being placed in an Attic (bleah, CVS). Moved to where? "Cellar"? "Cistern"? "Outhouse"? They have to be kept around someplace. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth