Re: [Cscope-devel] [PATCH] fix avoid source control files

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On 28 May 2003, Joe DiMartino wrote:

> When running cscope -R on a bitkeeper tree of the linux kernel, it
> generates a database that includes all the SCCS files.

Well --- don't do that then.  The flexibility of search options like -R
can only go so far.   At some point, recursive directory traversals
really ought to be passed over to the tool designed for that very task.

	find /usr/src/linux -name '*.[chly]' > cscope.files

with some more options and some postprocessing will sooner or later always
be needed.  For a tree as large as the Linux kernel, -R is stretched way
thin already, even without SCCS stuff in there.

[...]
> As an afterthought, why bother doing lstat on all the files in the
> SCCS (or CVS) directories anyway.

Because not all files found in directories named CVS or SCCS are
necessarily version-tracking data, for one thing.  Those sure are the most
typical cases, but not the only one.

> +#include <libgen.h>

Not allowable without a test for the existence of this file, and an
#ifndef guard around the #include.

Anyway: cscope already has its own basename() replacement
implementation anyway --- you could just use that one instead and save
yourself the portability hassles.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.