From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19228 invoked from network); 3 May 2000 11:12:26 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 May 2000 11:12:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 11188 invoked by alias); 3 May 2000 11:11:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 11105 Received: (qmail 11178 invoked from network); 3 May 2000 11:11:28 -0000 Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 12:10:37 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Subject: Re: Completion system directories In-reply-to: "Your message of Wed, 03 May 2000 10:30:25 -0000." <1000503103025.ZM21416@candle.brasslantern.com> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Message-id: <0FTZ007IUDPOKU@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Bart wrote: > On May 3, 11:14am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > } And finally: what is the easiest way to make these changes in the CVS > } repository? Is there really no simpler way than using `cvs add' and > } `cvs remove'? > > There's no way using :pserver:, but since we have shell access to the > repository ... > > If we can impose a moritorium on commits for a while, we can simply copy > the ,v files to new directories in the repository, and then "cvs remove" > the originals. (We could use mv rather than cp, but that messes up the > "cvs update" of people's existing checked-out sandboxes. The only way > to make checked-out copies go away cleanly is to "cvs remove"/commit.) I don't like mucking around in the archive in this way because it means we can no longer checkout old versions of the shell. As far as I'm concerned using cvs add/remove would be perfectly OK. -- Peter Stephenson Cambridge Silicon Radio, Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070