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Re: CVS for System Administration and Configuration Restoral
From: |
Garth Winter Webb |
Subject: |
Re: CVS for System Administration and Configuration Restoral |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:42:12 -0700 (PDT) |
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> However I would *STRONGLY* advise against trying to use CVS to track and
> manage system configurations and I would *NEVER* use it to propogate
> system configurations.
I would have to agree.
> > Yup, you've got to import. Thats how CVS works. CVS does allow you to
> > define patterns to match against files you don't want imported. What
> > would you say is an easy way to define what you don't want from a list of
> > a files?
>
> No, you don't have to use "cvs import" -- You can use "cvs add".
Not when the parent directory hasn't been checked into CVS yet. I got the
impression he was trying to add a whole new tree as opposed to building on
an existing configuration.
Garth