A newbie question.

2004-05-09 Thread du allen
Hi there, I am using cvs in red hat 9.0. It worked pretty well for my application project. But when I tried to use it to manage my linux kernel source tree,it went wrong. When I tried to import the kernel source tree, some files were lost. For example I couldn't find the subdirectory of linux-2

Re: A newbie question.

2004-05-09 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 06:37:15PM +0800 du allen wrote: > When I tried to import the kernel source tree, some files were lost. > For example I couldn't find the subdirectory of linux-2.6.0/sound/core > in the repository. [...] > I searched the archives but found no answer. But it

A newbie question about branches

2001-11-20 Thread Andrés
I have a project under CVS version control. Right now I am planning to make a dramatic change on a previous release of the project, but I don't want to affect the main trunk. I would think that it is appropiate to create a new branch on that previous release, and make modifications to the branch

RE: A newbie question about branches

2001-11-20 Thread Thornley, David
> -Original Message- > From: Elbert "Andrés" Messa "Díaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A newbie question about branches > > > I have a project under CVS version contr

RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > To the maintainer(s) of the manual: Wouldn't it be good to > add a hint to > > http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.15/cvs_13.html#SEC104 > > as this really seems to be a FAQ, and it is not easily found > if someone > does not read the *entire* Cederqvist. I wo

RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Schrum, Allan (Allan)
Such as core for files and core/ for directories? -Allan -Original Message- From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.) Spiro Trikali

RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 09:43 AM 5/10/2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote: I wonder if this could be solved by modifying the behaviour of .cvsignore - if we could tell CVS to ignore *files* named 'core' but not *directories* named 'core', then the problem would go away altogether. We still need a way to ignore directories, though.

Re: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello Jim, * On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:43:09AM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote: > Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > > To the maintainer(s) of the manual: Wouldn't it be good to add a > > hint to > > > > http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.15/cvs_13.html#SEC104 > > > > as this really seems to be a FAQ,

RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Frederic Brehm wrote: > At 09:43 AM 5/10/2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote: > >I wonder if this could be solved by modifying the behaviour > of .cvsignore - > >if we could tell CVS to ignore *files* named 'core' but not > *directories* > >named 'core', then the problem would go away altogether. > > We stil

Re: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Larry Jones
Spiro Trikaliotis writes: > > I don't think this is enough. There are circumstances where one wants to > import files named core, or files named .old, .bak or the like. That's what -I! is for. > The best thing is to document it in a way the user can find it easily - > that's why I want this link