[MITgcm-devel] Re: aux for cygwin

[Chris Hill]

Ed,

 You can remane it to "used_to_be_aux". That way it will still be there in
case there is something relevant in Attic/. I don't believe CVS knows
anything about its existence - although it might give weird messages when
people do "update".

Chris 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:15 PM
> To: MITgcm-devel
> Subject: [MITgcm-devel] Re: aux for cygwin
> 
> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:03, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> > Sorry to whine two months later, but I am back on the road using 
> > cygwin, and this:
> > 
> > >> o copying the contents of "aux" to "extra" so that 
> MITgcm is easier
> > >>    to use within pathetic "OSes" that cannot deal with file or
> > >>    directory names such as "aux"
> > 
> > does not quite do it.  With "cvs checkout -P MITgcm", I still get:
> > 
> > cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to
> > MITgcm/verification/flt_example/aux: Not a directory
> > 
> > I guess the way around this is with a "cvs co MITgcm_verif_ocean"
> > command, since it's probably not a good idea to actually remove a 
> > directory from the CVS tree.  Or are there some magic incantations 
> > that I am supposed to chant before calling cvs?
> 
> 
> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> I've moved this discussion to the devel list since perhaps 
> it'd be best to just ask:
> 
>   Would anyone have a problem if I removed the empty and probably
>   useless "aux" dir located at "verification/flt_example/aux" ?
> 
> If no one has a problem with that, I'll move it (*not* delete 
> it) outside of CVS by the end of the week.
> 
> Ed
> 
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