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Re: Committing removal of empty directories?


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: Committing removal of empty directories?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:44:20 -0500 (EST)

Pekka Savola writes:
> 
> Ok.  How you're supposed to remove empty directories from CVS?  There has
> to be a way apart from hacking CVSROOT files directly.

You're not supposed to remove directories.  CVS only manages files, not
directories -- if those directories ever contained files, deleting them
would prevent CVS from ever being able to check out those (now deleted)
files.  The usual advice is to use the -P flag on checkout and update
(you can put it in your ~/.cvsrc file so you don't have to remember to
type it all the time) to delete them from your working directory.

-Larry Jones

No one can prove I did that!! -- Calvin



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