[cvsnt] cvs ignoring .dll files

David Somers dsomers at omz13.com
Thu Aug 3 19:50:44 BST 2006


Chuck Kirschman wrote:

> I've noticed that newer versions of cvsNT ignore .dll, .exe, etc. files
> when doing a "cvs -nq up" or similar.  I have to assume this is a bow to
> Microsoft's practice of putting the output into the source tree.  But
> real projects don't run that way for a lot of reasons.  If there is a
> DLL in my source tree, it is meant to be part of my source, or some bad
> build artifact that I need to know about.  So is there a switch or
> environment variable so that cvsNT will not ignore these file types?

Use the -I! option to clear the list of ignored file.

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David Somers
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