Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes

[Paul Sander]

Keep in mind that, although Greg does not acknowledge it, a number of 
people in this forum have stated a requirement for an add-time trigger 
that could be used for such things as enforcement of naming conventions 
and access control.  Such a feature (referred to in the past as 
"addinfo") would reinstate the need to contact the server during 
additions.

On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:34 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> [ On Monday, November 15, 2004 at 14:43:06 (-0800), Mark D. Baushke 
> wrote: ]
> > > Alternately, or additionally, my old "cvs add"
> > > proposal needs to be implemented.
> >
> > Could you restate it please? Is it just that you
> > want a recursive 'cvs add' or is it something
> > else?
>
> Much more:
>
> (note this is just a cut&paste from the copy I kept since it was last
> posted here -- I've not reviewed it in well over a year now, though it
> may have had some minor edits and corrections since last being posted)
>
> A Proposal to Avoid Immediately Creating Directories in the Repository
> ======================================================================
>
> This proposal fixes the "cvs add" function so that it no longer handles
> directories in any special way and instead simply treats them as
> underlying structure that holds all the files apart.  Together with
> this change will be bundled the total disconnection of "cvs add" from
> any repository actions (thus allowing "cvs add" to work properly on a
> disconnected client machine in all circumstances).  In its entirety 
> this
> proposal brings the "cvs add" user interface (command-line interface 
> and
> resulting behaviour) into conformance with all other CVS sub-commands
> that operate from within a CVS working directory.