"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> What's happening here is that cvs actually creates the directory and
>>> then later prunes it when it finds it is empty.
>>
>> I find that explanation pretty unconvincing. Why would cvs print a "?"
>> for such a directory?
> cvs will print a ? if it doesn't know what it is... or is that svn?
But cvs certainly knows "what it is" if it's a subdirectory subject to
creation and pruning; that means the subdirectory exists in the
repository.
I doubt that cvs would complain about a pre-existing subdirectory of
this type either, because that would result in an unreasonable amount of
chatter when adding or removing the -P option.
regards, tom lane