Re: different behaviour of 'cvs ci'

[jody]

Spiro, Ted thanks for the infos.

I already fixed things before seeing Ted's message:
I simply checked the whole tree out with the :local: in front of the directory


Jody

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Ted Stern <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2008 07:05:05 -0700, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>>
>> Hello Jody,
>>
>> * On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:00:47AM -0700 jody.xha wrote:
>>
>>> After a crash i had to reinstall fedora 8 and now cvs behaves differently.
>>> Previously, when i did a 'cvs ci' after changing files in several
>>> subdirectories,
>>> the editor opened with all changed files in it.
>>> Now (cvs 1.11.22) it opens the editor for every subdirectory.
>>
>> This is not a change of cvs; you changed your CVSROOT description.
>>
>> If you use a local directory (i.e., /usr/share/cvs/ or c:\cvsrepo) for
>> your CVSROOT (or with the "-d" option), then CVS asks for your
>> description for every single directory.
>>
>> If you prepend a :local: (i.e., :local:/usr/share/cvs or
>> :local:c:\cvsrepo), CVS asks for the commit message only once.
>>
>> So, you most probably want to add the :local: before your cvsroot.
>
> Which brings up the question: how do you change the CVS/Root file for
> every subdirectory in a sandbox checkout, possibly a huge hierarchy?
>
> Here's one way:
>
>
>     find . -type f -print | grep '/CVS/Root$' | \
>       xargs perl -wpi -e 's|^/|:local:/|o'
>
> HTH,
>
> Ted
>
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Spiro.
>>
>>   "Anybody who would spend considerable effort emulating a C64 is not
>>   particularly sane to begin with; it is unreasonable to expect them to 
>> produce
>>   sane software."
>>   ("asuffield" in http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/7199/134136.aspx)
>
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>  Frango ut patefaciam -- I break so that I may reveal
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