Re: CVS - Obsolete files

[Richard Wesley]

At 3:13 PM -0400 6/14/01, Larry Jones wrote:
> Lamar Seifuddin writes:
> >  How can I set up CVS to checkout source directories
> >  without getting the "obsolete" files?
>
> Remove them (with cvs rm).  They'll still be in the repository, just in
> the Attic subdirectory with the latest revision marked "dead", so their
> revision history will still be available.
>
> -Larry Jones

On a related note, I keep running into a problem managing third party 
sources.  Sometimes we will get a drop of a source tree and some of 
the files have been deleted i.e. they are not present in the import 
(any more).  When I import and then update a workspace, the missing 
files are not removed.

Is there any way to make this happen automatically.  I can see that 
it is a thorny problem in the general case, but it also seems that 
for this common case there might be something if only I could find 
it...

- rmgw

http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/

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