The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I did a fresh 'cvs checkout' just now to make sure I had a good set
>> of files, and was dismayed to discover that a whole bunch of dead
>> subdirectories have reappeared in the CVS tree.
> Did you use the -P option? when you checkout, you should do:
> cvs checkout -P pgsql
> It gets rid of the 'dead' directories tha way...
OK, but I hadn't been doing that before ... ah, wait, I see it.
In my ~/.cvsrc file I havecvs -z3update -d -P
which means that cvs update gets the -P flag automatically. So my
old tree didn't have the deadwood because I'd run update against it.
Guess I should add "checkout -P" to .cvsrc.
thanks, tom lane