Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 21:32:13 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs vs deleted repositories Message-ID: <199504231132.VAA28184@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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
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