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Re: CVS setup
From: |
Laine Stump |
Subject: |
Re: CVS setup |
Date: |
06 Apr 2001 15:29:41 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:
> Laine Stump writes:
> >
> > Yes, the unfortunate part is that InstallShield insists on using long
> > names with embedded spaces for directories and files, which leads to
> > odd inconveniences occasionally (eg, cvs -n update doesn't work
> > properly,
>
> What goes wrong?
When I look at it more closely, I find:
1) It's not that big a deal.
2) it probably occurs when the directory names *don't* have spaces, too.
(I just happened to notice it in a directory that had spaces in the name,
and made a rash assumption).
What I saw was a message like this:
cvs update: New directory `ishield/Setup Files/Compressed
Files/0009-English/Intel 32' -- ignored
When the given directory is in the repository but empty (and I have -P
in my .cvsrc, ie the directory doesn't exist in my workspace).
When I do update without -n, no message about the empty directory is
printed. It seems like "-n update" should notice that the directory is
empty and -P is on, and print nothing. But, as I said, it's not a big
deal.
> > you can't use "find . -print | xargs ...", etc).
>
> You can if you have the GNU versions of find and xargs:
>
> find . -print0 | xargs -0 ...
>
> (Actually, all you need is GNU xargs:
>
> find . -print | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 ...
>
> although various versions of tr have slightly different syntaxes, so you
> might have to fool around a bit to get exactly the right incantation.)
Cool! Now that you say it, I think I remember seeing that before, but
it didn't stick with me then because I didn't need it. After this,
I promise I'll remember it! ;-)
- Re: CVS setup, (continued)