Re: about imports and cvs update

[Larry Jones]

Harry Putnam writes:
> 
> I don't do many imports... maybe 5-5 in the last 10 yrs..
> And never did one that was not the start of a new repository.
> 
> Is it a misuse of import to use it to start a new directory hierarchy
> beneath some exiting hierarchy in CVSROOT?

Not at all -- CVS really doesn't care about the directory structure.

> On a remote machine (on home lan) I've imported a directory hierarchy
> like so:
> 
> cvs import -m "some blab" base/NEW_IMPORT blah start
> 
> Now, back on the local host which is also the cvs server for the home
> lan, I go to the checked out module, which hasn't been used since I
> did the import.
> 
> I run `cvs -n update -dP'.. just checking.
> 
> It shows no output.

Yes, that's normal.

> Shouldn't cvs be telling me about the newly imported directory
> hierarchy under `base', and be listing files needing to be updated?

Yes it should, but the way the CVS code is structured prevents update
with -n from doing everything that it does without the -n.  Actually
running the update (without the -n) will do the right thing.
-- 
Larry Jones

Oh, now YOU'RE going to start in on me TOO, huh? -- Calvin