How to detect new CVS dirs
Peter Toft <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi all I have a small brain-teaser for the CVS-gurus.... Assume that I "pto" have a CVS module checked out, and the user "donald" have the same module checked out - both on HEAD version. Then "donald" adds two dirs (Donald/ + Scrooge/) and one file (Scrooge/McDuck) mkdir Donald mkdir Scrooge echo "money" > Scrooge/McDuck cvs add Donald Scrooge cvs commit Donald Scrooge cvs add Scrooge/McDuck cvs commit -m "Money makes the world go around" Scrooge/McDuck My question to you is how can "pto" detect what "donald" did - WITHOUT changing the files locally. Part of the question is solved by running cvs -q -n update -AdP However now it gets a bit more blurry.... I will see the directories "Donald" and "Scrooge" in my stderr output cvs update: New directory `Donald' -- ignored cvs update: New directory `Scrooge' -- ignored well - I kinda dislike this, since a real "cvs update -AdP will prune the empty "Donald" away i.e. I cannot see why "cvs -q -n update -AdP" should show this. Comments on this? The other issue is that I cannot see the file "Scrooge/McDuck" with my "cvs -q -n update -AdP". Clues to get that information - again without actually modifying the local files of me? Comments? I can solve this by first doing an actual update of the two dirs, and see what I get - and then remove the two dirs, but I would like to solve this with that strategy. Best Peter Toft -- Peter Toft, PhD http://petertoft.dk