-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNcDkXZ3PYSMiDiERAidhAKCMyZrl0hSWRvZNTvzXOPPgfoXjzACdHo/K UrRUMC9Nu/nJmKjLsH7Fe48= =IyKj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]