Re: Strange dir behavior and Emptydir - root cause

[Larry Jones]

Pyatt, Scott writes:
> 
> If I understand correctly, CVS version 1.11.1p1 solves the problem of
> inadvertently creating directories in $CVSROOT/Emptydir, but what about the
> root cause of this problem which is CVS losing track of which repository
> directory is mapped to the workspace directory when -d used in a modules
> file with multiple levels of directories?  Is this resolved in 1.11.1p1?

It's not so much losing track of the mapping as never knowing it in the
first place.  Prior to 1.11.1p1, CVS didn't even try to figure out the
mapping for intermediate directories, it just mapped them to Emptydir. 
1.11.1p1 makes an attempt to map them which seems to match most people's
expectations, at least in the obvious cases.

-Larry Jones

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