William Trenker said:
(This isn't really a boost question but I've spent half a day reading the cvs documentation and am hoping for a bit of help on what I think is probably a very simple question.)
I have a blazing 33.6K modem connection to the Internet. So when I do a cvs update of my copy of the boost tree, the mug shots (.jpg files) in the people subdirectory take quite a long time to be checked for differences. I don't really need to update those files so I am trying to get a .cvsignore file to work in the "people" subdirectory. (I realize these files may not change very often; still, I would appreciate knowing how to do a .cvsignore for boost libraries that I'm not using.) But I can't get cvs to recognize the .cvsignore file.
I created a .cvsignore file, with the line "*.jpg", in the people sub-directory. But when I run "cvs update" in the people sub-directory (after "cvs login") cvs gives me a "? .cvsignore" response and continues updating anyway. I thought maybe I have to "cvs add" the .cvsignore file, but that doesn't work.
How do I get cvs to "see" my .cvsignore file?
AFAIK, you have to check the .cvsignore files in for them to take effect, and I also don't believe the effect files already in the repository. Long and short is, I don't think you can .cvsignore these files. Sorry, William E. Kempf