[chora] Weird results with Chora 1.0

Colin Viebrock colin@easydns.com
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:50:37 -0500


> Yeah, it is.  CVS never deletes directories - when you delete
> an entire tree, all the files in there are moved into the relevant
> Attic/ directories.
>
> >From Chora's point of view, when it looks at a single repository
> directory, it doesn't know that some of the directories are
> actually "empty" on that branch.
>
> The only real way to solve this is by using a database to
> pre-process the CVS repository to make up for some of CVS's
> shortcomings (to handle searching, better views, per-commit revs).

Yeah.  Hrmm.  Funny thing is, I don't remember seeing this behaviour in
Chora 0.6 (or whatever the previous stable release was).  There is a very
good chance it was just me not noticing it before.

Thanks for the info.

- Colin