[m-dev.] Adding a directory to CVS

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Jan-2000, Robert Ernst Johann JESCHOFNIK <rejj at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> What is involved in adding a new subdirectory in the repository? Do you
> just `cvs add ./dirname' , or do you have to do that, and then manually
> add every file in that dir?
> 
> I ask since once I get confirmation from Tom about the licencing and after
> I do a bit more work on it, I'm going to add the (still partial) curses
> binding to the extras dir.

For that case, `cvs add' is probably the right thing to use --
see Zoltan's reply for details.

I just wanted to point out that there is also `cvs import',
which is what you should use if you are adding code developed
elsewhere (e.g. we use this for the boehm_gc directory).

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