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Re: Guile CVS users: new directory


gjb@cs.washington.edu writes:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
> 
> > I've added a directory `doc' to Guile.  Due to wonderfulness in CVS,
> > just doing a normal `cvs update' will not get you the new directory;
> > it'll just get you the configury and makery that expects it to be
> > there.  (All drink.)
> 
> I highly recommend making -d be the default for cvs update commands.
> You can do this with your .cvsrc file.  Mine has two lines:
> 
> diff -u -p
> update -d
> 

Why not `update -dP'? You rarely, if ever want empty directories since
they are usually empty because they are no longer used, but CVS can't
properly delete directories.

 - Maciej