Re: Trouble ignoring cvs message with pcl-cvs mode

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Ivan" == Ivan Kanis <ivank@juliva.com> writes:

  Ivan> Hello,

  Ivan> I am getting these annoying messages when I do a cvs-examine

  Ivan> Message: cvs server: New directory `discussion' -- ignored
  Ivan> Message: cvs server: New directory `editorial' -- ignored
  Ivan> Message: cvs server: New directory `equipes' -- ignored

  Ivan> I have tried to set the cvs-parse-ignore-messages variable
  Ivan> like thus:

  Ivan> (setq cvs-parse-ignored-messages '(".*New
  Ivan> directory.*ignored.$"))

  Ivan> bu pcl-cvs is still displaying the messages. Have I missed
  Ivan> something?

  Ivan> Your help would be greatly appreciated!


If memory services this means that the is a directory in the
repository that you do not have in your workfile. If you do
cvs-update, these directories will be created. Or cvs update -d from
the command line. 

This works unless you have empty directories in your
repository. pcl-cvs uses the -P option to prune empty directories from
your work files. Then you are stuffed. CVS just doesn't version
directories. Once you create them, they are there for ever. Unless you
delete them from the repository. If you do this though, you will loose
the "attic" which is where remove files are kept, which is fine,
unless you try and restore tagged versions which include files which
have been subsequently deleted. 

Ho hum. 

Phil