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Re: CVSIGNORE won't ignore .conf files
From: |
Derek R. Price |
Subject: |
Re: CVSIGNORE won't ignore .conf files |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:42:31 -0500 |
Richard Ponton wrote:
> I tried using both .cvsignore and the CVSIGNORE environment variable.
>
> Both worked for all the other types of files I wanted to ignore (like
> *.shtml).
>
> In my tree there is a conf subdirectory, with various .conf files in it.
>
> With *.conf in my cvsignore and even naming the files explicitly, it still
> wouldn't ignore
> them.
>
> RingTFM and websearches didn't yield any clues, only messages about the
> /root/.cvsignore problem.
>
> I'm on RedHat 6.2, but I'm NOT having the /root/.cvsignore problem.
CVSIGNORE only works on files that aren't already tracked by CVS. Basically,
that means it stops
files with type '?' from appearing during updates and commits.
Derek
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