Re: Current CVS in a bad state?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter T Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Current CVS in a bad state?
Date: 2001-04-20 15:26:00
Message-ID: 26414.987780360@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter T Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk> writes:
> Quoting Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> Did you use -P during the checkout?

> No, but then the last time I did this (about a month ago) I didn't then either.

That's why it reappeared, then.

> As I just said to Marc, I remember the directory being deleted on the server
> side after I had done a cvs delete.

CVS *never* deletes a server-side directory. Read the manual.

I don't know why -P isn't the standard behavior, because the default
(non -P) is confusing and almost never what you want. I keep this in
my ~/.cvsrc:

cvs -z3
update -d -P
checkout -P

regards, tom lane

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