I think the Linux guy once tried to update CVS and had to compile it.
Afterwards nothing worked and he had to rollback.
You write: "Your best bet might be: Disregard using "-P" on update and
checkout, and
put a .cvsignore file INTO xfolder/."
I use Eclipse. Eclipse cannot disregard using -P. How could it disregard?
Besides that I think it is problematic that accidentally checkid in stuff
cannot be excluded from CVS by a simple command, in order to be able to ignore
it. Errors happen and need to be corrected in a productive and straightforward
way I think. As I said, not even deleting the folder in the repository helped.
You didn't say anything to this in particular.
By the way, are you a CVS developer?
Hello Hans,
* On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:22:03AM -0700 Hans Schwaebli wrote:
>
> Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
> Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.5 (client/server)
Note that both versions are rather old and full of bugs. I would highly
recommend to update to a more recent 1.11.x version. (Although, the
problems you are having are not related to this).
> Concerning the commands used: The ones which Eclipse 3.2.2 uses...
> Besides that, we have to use the CVS version which Eclipse supports.
> The people at Eclipse don't seem to agree with the latest CVS
> developments.
Well, I do not agree with the Eclipse developments, so.... ;)
> To exclude Eclipse from being the reason for this, I used a new
> workspace, but the problems remained. It is not possible for me to
> purge this information that it has been checked in once.
Well, I either misunderstood you in the first place, or you were not
exact:
> cvs add "/Test/src/test/xfolder"
> Directory \CVSREP/Test/src/test/xfolder added to the repository
> ok (took 0:00.297)
> ***
[...]
> I deleted xfolder and checked it in:
You CANNOT check in deleted folders. This is not even possible with SVN,
AFAIK.
What you have checked in is the removed xfolder/xfile:
> ***
> cvs ci -m -l "/Test/src/test/xfolder/xfile.txt"
> Removing src/test/xfolder/xfile.txt;
> \CVSREP/Test/src/test/xfolder/xfile.txt,v <-- xfile.txt
> new revision: delete; previous revision: 1.1
> done
> ok (took 0:00.188)
> ***
If you would use "cvs up -d" afterwards, the folder would reappear.
Anyway, since Eclipse seems to use "-P" additionally, xfolder/ will be
deleted immediately.
> Then I created the xfolder again and wanted to ignore it.
Indeed, THIS is not possible. xfolder is in the repository, thus, CVS
will handle it, regardless of what you do.
> But Eclipse
> does not allow me to ignore it, but to commit it. So I created a
> .cvsignore file and added "xfolder". But Eclipse didn't ignore it.
CVS cannot ignore the directory xfolder/. .cvsignore is used for files
and directories which are not under the control of CVS. Since xfolder/
was checked in, it is under the control of CVS. You cannot change this.
Your best bet might be: Disregard using "-P" on update and checkout, and
put a .cvsignore file INTO xfolder/.
HTH,
Spiro.
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