Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-16 Thread Dennis Jones
ECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:39 PM Subject: Re: cvs add --new > The problem with overloading "cvs add" to create new modules is that one of "cvs > add"'s preconditions is that the module already exists. I can understand

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-16 Thread Noel L Yap
ennis - Original Message - From: "Francis Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:50 AM Subject: Re: cvs add --new For TortoiseCVS (an Explorer extension interface to CVS), I felt forced to implement exactly this feature

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-16 Thread Dennis Jones
Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:50 AM Subject: Re: cvs add --new For TortoiseCVS (an Explorer extension interface to CVS), I felt forced to implement exactly this feature via a kludge using "cvs import". (It makes an

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-16 Thread Francis Irving
For TortoiseCVS (an Explorer extension interface to CVS), I felt forced to implement exactly this feature via a kludge using "cvs import". (It makes an empty directory in a temporary place, and does cvs import on that, then checks it out again, and copies the CVS bit to the working directory). N

RE: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Rex_Jolliff
Actually I comment was meant to point out a percieved flaw in CVS. When I show developers CVS in the environment that I work, putting new projects into CVS is always a place that they see weakness in CVS as they either have to pretend they are their own vendor, or use the top level dir checkou

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:43:32PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ["cvs add --new" wanted because "cvs import" doesn't insert metadata] > > It seems that what is being asked for is a CVS command to convert a > regular directory into a cvs workspace di

RE: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Chuck . Irvine
> > My main problem with "Import" is that it does not insert > all the metadata into my existing directory structure. > So once I import the stuff, I then have to move it out > of the way (rename the dir) and check everything out > again. "Add" takes care of this for me. > It seems that what

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:37:00PM -0500, Mr. Aldo D. Longhi wrote: > Mike Castle wrote: > >I still can't see what the problem with import is. > > My main problem with "Import" is that it does not insert > all the metadata into my existing directory structure. > So once I import the stuff, I then

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mr. Aldo D. Longhi
Mike Castle wrote: >On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:28:18PM -0500, Mr. Aldo D. Longhi wrote: >> I like Rex's idea of creating a new way to add >> a new directory (and contents) to the repo. >> I do this all the time; "Import" is typically not >> what I want to do, and I haven't yet written a >> wrapper

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:28:18PM -0500, Mr. Aldo D. Longhi wrote: > I like Rex's idea of creating a new way to add > a new directory (and contents) to the repo. > I do this all the time; "Import" is typically not > what I want to do, and I haven't yet written a > wrapper script to perform this s

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Noel L Yap
(bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: cvs add --new I like Rex's idea of creating a new way to add a new directory (and contents) to the repo. I do this all the time; "Import" is typically not what I want to do, and I haven't yet written a wrapper script to perform this sequence of act

cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Mr. Aldo D. Longhi
I like Rex's idea of creating a new way to add a new directory (and contents) to the repo. I do this all the time; "Import" is typically not what I want to do, and I haven't yet written a wrapper script to perform this sequence of actions so I end up doing it manually: cvs -F co -l (To avoid my