On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Egbert, > > > I don't see a way how you can work around this as there seems to > > be no way to exclude files from checkout/update. > > One could create an alias module in the CVS repositry which excludes > > the HP directory. Like > > > > xc-win -a !xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/HP xc > > > > Then doing a > > cvs checkout xc-win > > may work. However I suspect that a 'cvs update' will still fail as > > this doesn't know about the module concept. > >Does this mean I can only get HEAD and new branches from it? I just >tried to get the xf-4_3-branch and it has the same problem as the >xf-4_3_0_1 tag. > >I just did this: >======================================================================== >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/x-devel/4.3 >$ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/x-devel/4.3 >$ export CVS_RSH=ssh > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/x-devel/4.3 >$ cvs -z3 checkout -r xf-4_3-branch xc > cvs-checkout.log 2>&1 > > >I got: >======================================================================== >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/hp >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/keytronic >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/kinesis >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/macintosh >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/microsoft >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/nec >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/northgate >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/pc >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/sony >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/sun >U xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/winbook >cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to >xc/programs/xkbcomp/geometry/HP: Not a directory > > >Does that mean that xf-4_3-branch will never work for Cygwin and that >there is nothing we can do to ever fix this? > >If so, that is really a bummer.
Be a little patient. This problem will be fixed, and in a way that minimises the impact on the history loss. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
