Re: Permanently removing directory tree from CVS repository

[Larry Jones]

Ezequiel Valenzuela writes [in very long lines]:
> 
> Recently I have added a directory tree to my CVS repository which I
> don't want to be there anymore (more specifically, it's been added
> erronously).
[...]
> How can I do to make a 'politically correct' removal of the whole
> thing? I have no interest on keeping my 'Attic' for that directory at
> all, and I want to do this through cvs commands if possible.

There is no "politically correct" way to remove stuff from CVS -- the
whole point of a revision control system is to maintain history, not to
delete it!  Manually removing the directory from the repository works
fine and is the right thing to do in this case.

-Larry Jones

How am I supposed to learn surgery if I can't dissect anything? -- Calvin