[cvsnt] bug in handling of global CVS ignore (CVSROOT/cvsignore) ?

[Hans Horn]

I was under the impression that front ends have no access to what's under
CVSROOT.
But then, I also have no clue about the internal workings of CVS as far as
"ignored files" are concerned.
To that end, I'd say that the CVS doc I've quoted in my initial posting is
rather misleading.
I kind-of understood, that CVS maintains an "ignored" list, that it shares
with its clients.

H.

"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message
news:3dee68fb.112987609 at news.cvsnt.org...
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:12:02 -0800, "Hans Horn" <hannes at 2horns.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> >as, for instance, all of the class files in my Java projects show up
as=20
> >'non-cvs' .
> >
> >However, when I provide a local .cvsignore file (containing the same=20
> >entries) for each of my top-level Java project folder, the classes =
> >folder,=20
> >as well as all the class files are hidden.
> >
> >
> That sounds like a GUI thing.  CVS doesn't have such a concept as
> 'hidden' - the .cvsignore changes the way import behaves, but the
> files will still be there.
>
> I know WinCVS doesn't read the global cvsignore (because it would be
> too expensive to contact the server all the time).  Not sure about
> other GUIs though.
>
> Tony
>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org>
Newsgroups: support.cvsnt
To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] bug in handling of global CVS ignore
(CVSROOT/cvsignore) ?


> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:12:02 -0800, "Hans Horn" <hannes at 2horns.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> >as, for instance, all of the class files in my Java projects show up
as=20
> >'non-cvs' .
> >
> >However, when I provide a local .cvsignore file (containing the same=20
> >entries) for each of my top-level Java project folder, the classes =
> >folder,=20
> >as well as all the class files are hidden.
> >
> >
> That sounds like a GUI thing.  CVS doesn't have such a concept as
> 'hidden' - the .cvsignore changes the way import behaves, but the
> files will still be there.
>
> I know WinCVS doesn't read the global cvsignore (because it would be
> too expensive to contact the server all the time).  Not sure about
> other GUIs though.
>
> Tony
>
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