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Date:      Wed, 06 Nov 1996 21:13:35 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org 
Message-ID:  <199611070513.VAA14764@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:51:19 EST." <199611070351.WAA04403@whizzo.transsys.com> 
References:  <199611070351.WAA04403@whizzo.transsys.com>

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> Is there a way to have cvsup not re-populate the Attic files?

Yes, as a matter of fact there is.  You can use "refuse" files for that.
See CVSUP(1) for details, but I'll give you the recipe here.  In each
directory "<base>/sup/<collection>", create a file named "refuse"
containing this line:

    */Attic/*

(where <base> and <collection> are the corresponding settings from
your supfile, of course).  This will make CVSup completely ignore
all Attic directories.  What that means:  It won't delete anything
from them, but it won't repopulate them either.  So, after you've
set up your "refuse" files, you'll have to use something like "find
... | xargs rm" to manually delete all the "Attic/*" files.  After
that, they'll remain empty.

> You'll be happy to know that if they are removed, cvsup will "fix"
> the "problem" and replace them..

I'm smilin'  :-)

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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