Re: cvs-1.12.9: bad output from cvs status -l

[Larry Jones]

Morris, Kathleen writes:
> 
> % cvs status -l *
> ======================================================
> <snipped other files>
> File: zip_logs.ksh      Status: Up-to-date
>  
>    Working revision:    1.1     Thu Sep 23 21:56:50 2004
>    Repository revision: 1.1     /ops/cvsroot/dir1/archive/zip_logs.ksh,v
>    Sticky Tag:          (none)
>    Sticky Date:         (none)
>    Sticky Options:      (none)
> ======================================================
> % cvs status zip_logs.ksh
>    Working revision:    1.2     Mon Jan  3 17:52:26 2005
>    Repository revision: 1.2     /ops/cvsroot/dir1/zip_logs.ksh,v
>    Sticky Tag:          (none)
>    Sticky Date:         (none)
>    Sticky Options:      (none)
> ======================================================

Those are two different files -- the first is archive/zip_logs.ksh, the
second is zip_logs.ksh.  The -l option prevents recursion, but if you
explicitly specify a directory on the command line, it still gets
processed, and "*" includes directories as well as files.  If you just
want the files in the current directory, you should specify "." rather
than "*" (or just don't specify any names at all since that is the
default).

-Larry Jones

Hmph. -- Calvin