Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:11:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts |
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:03:43 +0000 (GMT) > > CVS can handle "core" just fine. In fact a cvs that ignores > directories not files called core by default is just plain broken. > > DaveM has been keeping the tree in CVS for a long time without > problems, with remote cvs access and all the works > > Yes but with a ".cvsignore" at the top level which says: > > !core > > to workaround this problem.
We will probably want to include this file in Linus' kernel distributions -- I know it would have saved me quite a bit of trouble and I guess the same goes for a lot of other people who just want to hack the kernel and are not interested in hacking CVS at all...
cheers,
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