Re: Empty Directories and Tags

[Derek R. Price]

Stephen Rasku wrote:

> Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >It seems that empty directories are not checked out when you checkout
> using
> >the -r option to specify a tag.  Is this a known bug or feature?  Any
> >workaround available?
>
> It's a feature.  CVS assumes that the directory is empty because that
> module doesn't exist on that branch.  The workaround is to have your
> build system to make these empty directories if they are required.

Or to check in an empty .cvsignore file or the like into the directory as
a placeholder.

Derek

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