re: CVS commit: src/gnu/dist/cvs/src

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:37:32PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
     | 
     | Module Name:     src
     | Committed By:    christos
     | Date:            Fri Jul 25 20:37:31 UTC 2003
     | 
     | Modified Files:
     |  src/gnu/dist/cvs/src: client.c cvs.h entries.c filesubr.c ignore.c
     |      main.c
     | 
     | Log Message:
     | Add -D dir option to be able to specify where cvs stores its bookkeeping
     | files (default to CVS as usual).

thank you very much christos.  i can now remove a hack i have had
in my copy of CVS ever since i started using it, namely, to use
".CVS" dirs instead of "CVS" dirs.  now i can just put "cvs -D .CVS"
in ~/.cvsrc!  yay!

   
   Does it work for "." ? I.e, store the bookkeeping files in the
   current directory..
   
   For extra credits, can it rename the bookkeeping files to have a
   prefix like ".CVS-" ?
   
   I could do with 10000 less subdirectories per copy of the NetBSD
   source tree... :)


it isn't quite enough to do this yet, but it's a good step... 
(in particular, the files are still named eg "/Entries" so there
neds to be someway to avoid that..  for "-D ." stuff you'd also
need to add some more ignore patterns (for all the files.)



.mrg.