From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-08-10T17:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: CVS add

Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:13:51PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
>> Just learning my way around CVS - is this missing anything? It seems to
>> work, but that's just programming by coincidence :)
> 
> Normally when adding a whole existing project to CVS you'd use 'cvs import'.

I thought of that, but a friend advised against it. Quoting him:

| Never use cvs import on existing files. you'll get lost in a maze
| of vendor ids and repository ids all alike.
| 
| do the following: suppose your project name is foo.
| 
| mkdir tmp; cd tmp		# any empty directory
| cvs import foo foo start	# will prompt for message, can leave blank
| cd ..; rmdir tmp
| cvs co foo			# creates foo and foo/CVS and stuff inside it
| cd foo
| cp whatever_existing_project_files_and_dirs .
| cvs add *
| cvs commit			# this is your real importing

And when I went to do that, I found out that CVS had no recursive add.

martin