Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 08:47:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs vs deleted repositories Message-ID: <199504231547.IAA04244@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504231132.VAA28184@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 23, 95 09:32:13 pm
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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 :-). :-) It has been mentioned a few times here and there over the years, but really needs to go into ``Rod's FAQ on using CVS on Freefall and at home''. > ... `cvs co -P src/gnu/usr.bin/ogroff' gets rid of all the stub directories > in ogroff but not ogroff/CVS. That because the remove of . would fail on must systems, so cvs tries to outsmart most systems and does not do ./CVS. If you cd ..; cvs update -P; it would remove ogroff/CVS and even ogroff. > Why isn't -P the default? I thought the same thing when I first figured this out, ask the cvs mailing list, I sure don't know. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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