Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....

[John Macdonald]

Mike Little wrote :
|| On 14 Feb 00, at 12:23, John Macdonald wrote:
|| >... and they all ignore all of the files and sub-directories of any
|| >directory that doesn't contain a CVS sub-dir (i.e. any directory that
|| >is not part of the cvs-managed work area is totally ignored).  They
|| >quietly return from such a directory without doing any other portion
|| >of the cvs operation as soon as it has been determined that the
|| >directory is not part of the cvs-managed work area.
|| 
|| Are we still talking about 'cvs add' here?
|| 
|| If cvs add worked in *exactly* the same way as most of the other 
|| commands, that is; ignore all of the files and sub-directories not part of the
|| cvs-manages work area, it wouldn't be much use would it?
|| 
|| Mike

Of course.  But that is no excuse for having it be the only command
that has to search around to find a work area to be operating within
rather than have the work area location be required and well-defined
for the command to operate.  If you issue "cvs update file", you have
to be in a cvs-managed work area or else cvs will complain and be
unable to do the update.

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