[ On Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 10:30:22 (-0500), Michael Gersten wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Help: Scripts to change repositories
>
> Incidently, I also am in favor of a different command ('radd', for recursive add?)
> that has zero chance of breaking other programs, or removing the 'add' command for
> two releases before putting it back in (think 'rlog'). Or, adding the '-R' flag to
> 'add', and just saying that the default for add is '-l'.
An 'r' prefix on a CVS command does not mean "recursive" -- it means
"repository", as in not requiring a "local" working directory from
whence to run the command. I've considered a "cvs radd" in the past
(i.e. some way to add objects to a repository without having a working
directory), but at the moment I don't see any justification for having
this ability (and perhaps several disadvantages to having it!).
My version of "cvs add" will simply fix the bugs in the current design
and bring the command into some more direct conformance with the rest of
the similar CVS commands.
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