Sergei Organov wrote: > CVS (1.11.1p1) doesn't seem to allow add/remove to be made > against a read-only > repository. This behavior makes it inconvenient to work with > such repositories > (I mean public CVS repositories of open-source projects). In > particular, > locally rm'ed files re-appear as soon as update is invoked, > and contents of > locally added files don't appear in the 'cvs diff'. > > At first glance it seems that adding/removing files is a > local activity > similar to other changes and thus shouldn't require write > access to the > repository until the time the changes are committed. Is the > idea fundamentally > broken, just difficult to implement, or what? Sounds to me like CVS is working perfectly well. What behaviour were you expecting?
Let's take a step back here. Why do you want to modify someone else's repository? Instead of checking out the source code, you could export it, then import it into a local repository. There, you can do what you want. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
