From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Maier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make CVS default revision controller Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:58:30 +0200 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5l7k8mnf2o.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84he7nuzww.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: Harald Maier NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053617784 28574 80.91.224.249 (22 May 2003 15:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 22 17:36:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Is4H-0007Ca-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 17:33:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IrdP-0000ag-RC for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:05:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1053615511 07 29909 Lq5ZVFCXSfYcmF 030522 14:58:31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: TbvlI0ZQQeUXz26BKDl6kOX0QCiJWRrc0cemgu7m8vMDLugpf9WcQY User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rrOPxHXjoLiQvzo8FFJola0DZBM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113540 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10039 marcuirl writes: > kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> Niels Freimann writes: >> >>> the problem is that vc uses rcs if the directory is NOT under CVS >>> control. If there is a chance to change this "behavior" to CVS >>> please let me know. >> >> Why is this a problem? For CVS, you have to create a repository, >> first. Then you have to create a working directory. Then you can >> add files from inside that working directory. >> >> So you can't add a random file to CVS anyway. > > So then, let us rephrase the question: > > How do you go about setting up an `empty' repository? Take a look at info: (cvs)From scratch > > All I want is to put .emacs, .gnus etc under CVS now that I am more > confident using it. And do this without importing the entire ${HOME} > directory structure. A work around I have thought is to ln -s these files > to others in a config/ But that will not fix the problem when in > another directory I want to CVS just one file in that directory? Personally, I woud use for the dot files RCS. Harald