On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:19:00PM -0800, Marco S Hyman wrote: > > For the sake of new folks it may be wise to put a .cvsignore in > > our /usr/src tree to prevent unintended cosequences of using the (also > > suggested) prune switch on cvs (-P). > > -P will only remove EMPTY directories that cvs knows about. Putting > xenocara (or in my case zenocara and ports) in /usr/src is pretty much > a no-op when it comes to cvs. A "cd /usr/src; cvs up -Pd" displays > "? xenocara". I can live with that. > Still, if we keep recommending /usr/src/xenocara, the ignore would get rid of the ? xenocara noise.
I routinely read through the output of cvs update to figure out which files I've got which do not belong. Any extra line will make me go `huh ?' and think about it.
