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On Tuesday 31 August 2004 20:52, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to manage a special machine's tree with cvs, but when trying to
> import the tree with cvs import(... ), cvs aborts soon with this message:
> cvs [import aborted]: reading dev/eda: No such device or address
>
> :-(
>
> How do I bypass this? I know of the cvsignore facility but AFAIK it can
> ignore only filenames patterns, not complete directories/directory
> regexp's. My current solution is keeping the /dev directory out of the
> tree, moving it back into the tree only when necessary. This works, but
> it's ugly... .

There is more then one way to Ignore a file in CVS:

* You can place a .cvsignore file in the directory where the file you want to 
ignore.
* You can use the -I switch to the cvs import command.
* You can use the CVSROOT/cvsignore to match pattern (this is the one you 
where talking about).

> Anyone knows how to do this nicely?
>
> thanks,
> Boaz.
>
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