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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 at 09:00:01 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....
> 
> In order for "cvs add empty-hier; cvs ci" to work properly, "cvs ci" will have
> to be changed to create repo directories whenever it spots a local CVS admin
> directory existing within a local directory not existing within the repo.  This
> would be a simple behavioural change from creating repo directories only when it
> spots newly added files within the local directory.

Nope.  That's completely wrong.  My proposal already shows how "cvs ci"
will work and it's not like you suggest at all -- almost the opposite in
fact.

You seem to have some fictional and very skewed concepts about what CVS
does and what it is supposed to do.  CVS only manages files and not
directories.  Assuming an up-to-date workspace then "cvs add empty-hier;
cvs ci" must do nothing (just as the final "cvs ci" does nothing today)!
Until you understand and accept this fact you'll be unable to go
forward.  Your arguments all seem to rest on this being false and thus
they must all crumble to nothing without it.

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