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> -----Original Message----- > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle > Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 10:29 AM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: [cvsnt] Re: CVS thinking CVS hidden directories are new > > > Christian Hack wrote: > > > Apparently this is a CVSNT bug according to Torsten of > TortoiseCVS. I > > have attached Torsten's final reply declaring it's a CVSNT bug. > > It's not a bug, in fact. All versions of CVS behave > identically in this > respect. > > You've told it not to ignore anything, so it doesn't. CVS > has a default list of files that > it'll ignore, and the CVS directory is one of those. > Normally you wouldn't use > ! to reset all the ignore files unless you were going to add > some or all of these to > the list. ! on its own is pretty drastic and has the effect > you noticed. > > It's just saying "this directory exists and you've told me > not to ignore it" - it's nothing to > do with added directories or anything. > OK Thanks for the clarification Tony - makes sense. It would seem Torsten is mistaken then. CH