[tex-live] mktexlsr ignores "rcs" on a Windows 7 machine

[Martin Schröder]

2010/8/18 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> Should not such reserved directories simply live outside
> of user space ?  For example, if the root of the installation
> is D:\TeX\Live\2010, could there not be a directory
> D:\TeX\Live\2010\System in which all such files live ?  Since
> this would (by definition) not be a branch of the tree
> into which arbitrarily named user files would be placed,
> would that not be a cleaner and better solution ?

But then you can't move a dir around and still keep its information
from the SCM.

> Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> I have several of my papers in an VCS, working concurrently with
>> other authors ... so at least for me this feature comes in handy.
>
> Yes, I don't doubt that you do, Norbert, but with the greatest
> respect, you are not a "normal TeX user", nor does the fact
> that one person (and I am sure there are more) use such a
> feature in any way conflict with my suggestion that the
> vast majority of TeX users do not.

I also use the texmf-tree from the TL SVN.

This problem only happens with RCS, as this doesn't use dot-files for
storing its information (like CVS, SVN and git do).

Best
   Martin