Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts | Date | 17 Dec 1998 17:36:32 GMT |
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In article <199812171347.FAA18668@dm.cobaltmicro.com>, David S. Miller <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> 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.
Has somebody considered (radical, I know) to just fix CVS once and for all, and tell people who have problems to upgrade to a newer version?
As far as I can tell, everybody agrees that CVS is being stupid in not checking at least that "core" is a regular file before ignoring it.
My opinion is that you shouldn't work around bugs in your tool-chain, you should fix them. Either by fixing CVS, or by using something else.
Linus
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