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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) |
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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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