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Re: Remove does not work - not a dash P issue


From: Stephen Rasku
Subject: Re: Remove does not work - not a dash P issue
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:18:19 -0800 (PST)

Shane Fisher wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I'm having a really frustrating time with one of my CVS modules.  I'm 
trying
>to delete it and all of its contents (-R default, right?) from the 
module
>wherein it lives.  Imagine a directory structure like so:
>
>/top
>/top/sub
>/top/sub/beneathsub1
>/top/sub/beneathsub2
>
>I run the following commands:
>
>$ cd top 
>$ rm -fr sub
>$ cvs remove -R sub
>
>And I get the following output:
>
>cvs server: Removing sub
>cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to sub: No such file or 
directory
>
>When I run an "ls" on $CVSROOT/top I see "sub", clear as day, just 
sitting
>there laughing at me, complete with all of its original contents!  So 
how in
>the *&^% do I get rid of this stupid module?!
>

You can only "cvs remove" files in cvs.  You can't remove directories. 
 All you can do is "cvs remove" the individual files in the 
directories and then "cvs co -P" so that you don't get the empty 
sub-directories.

-- 
Stephen Rasku                   E-mail: address@hidden
Senior Software Engineer        Web:    http://www.tgivan.com/
TGI Technologies                        http://www.pop-star.net/




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