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Re: Ignoring files and directories when checking out


From: Pierre Asselin
Subject: Re: Ignoring files and directories when checking out
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:45:26 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (NetBSD/2.0.3 (i386))

Jim Hyslop <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sanjay Goel wrote:
> > [ ... ]  Is it possible to mark some files and
> > directories as masked/ignored so that when I checkout a parent level
> > directory, these files/directories don't check out?

> No. Just don't check them in, in the first place ;=)

> Well, strictly speaking that's not true. You could tag the files and
> then 'cvs rm' them. Any time you do want to get them, you'll have to get
> them by tag.

Clever idea, but a better way would be to *not* tag them.  Instead,
tag the files you do want.  Specify the tag when you check out the
module.


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pa at panix dot com


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