Hi, CVS gets understandably upset if you try and add a subdirectory before it's parent directory. This patch fixes that. >From d99d4e7eb0ce7b85fb84d3c57f57abbb100baa5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Bennee <alex@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:12:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Ensure we add directories in the correct order --- git-cvsexportcommit.perl | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl index 0a21215..a70c583 100755 --- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl +++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl @@ -234,6 +234,17 @@ print "Applying\n"; print "Patch applied successfully. Adding new files and directories to CVS\n"; my $dirtypatch = 0; + +# +# We have to add the directories in order otherwise we will have +# problems when we try and add the sub-directory of a directory we +# have not added yet. +# +# Luckily this is easy to deal with by sorting the directories and +# dealing with the shortest ones first. +# +@dirs = sort { length $a <=> length $b} @dirs; + foreach my $d (@dirs) { if (system(@cvs,'add',$d)) { $dirtypatch = 1; -- 1.5.2.5 -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html