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Re: cvs add <directory>
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Donald Sharp |
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Re: cvs add <directory> |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2003 09:15:05 -0400 |
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clearcase can do this. Go check it out ;).
donald
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:51:06AM -0400, Phil R Lawrence wrote:
> Greg A. Woods wrote:
> >Yes, unfortunately though people seem to think for some bizarre reason
> >that directories contain something interesting other than just files and
> >thus they seem to want to version them, but fortunately they are
> >completely mistaken, or have been mislead by stupid unnecessary features
> >in other similar tools. It all stems from the fact that far too many
> >people are using _very_ wrong tools for the jobs they think they're
> >trying to do.
>
> Hold on there! We were unable to use CVS because it could not version
> our directories... I consider it a major deficiency.
>
> I gather that most people use CVS to version their c projects, etc...
> normal things that you compile and release.
>
> But we were hoping to version our production ERP directory tree. Most
> of our work involves one-at-a-time script
> manipulation/addition/deletion. A major downfall was CVS inability to
> handle (and reproduce upon checkout) hard and soft links from that dir
> structure.
>
> We never did find a tool that could do this, and settled on just RCS'ing
> individual files. But that really sucks. I had hoped i could check out
> a complete, functioning tree (links and all, dir structure as of a
> certain release, etc.) on a test machine for practicing vendor upgrade
> scripts. It would have been sweet.
>
> Phil R Lawrence
>
>
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- Re: cvs add <directory>, (continued)
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Kaz Kylheku, 2003/05/22
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Max Bowsher, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Max Bowsher, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Remi Gurski, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Max Bowsher, 2003/05/24
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Phil R Lawrence, 2003/05/23
- Re: cvs add <directory>,
Donald Sharp <=
- Re: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Shankar Unni, 2003/05/23
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Paul Sander, 2003/05/23
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/23
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Paul Sander, 2003/05/24
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/24
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Shankar Unni, 2003/05/24
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/24
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Paul Sander, 2003/05/25
- RE: cvs add <directory>, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/25