Re: Removing a branch

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:59:21PM -0400, Danial Islam wrote:
> What is the safest/best way to remove a branch full of files from the
> repository?
> 
> I was thinking that  cvs rtag -d <branchname> or cvs tag -d <branchname>
> are not sufficient enough.

You're right.  Those will only remove the branch tags; all the
revisions will still be there -- but unlabelled now, so nobody
will know what they signify.

You'll have to go through and "cvs admin -o" all the revisions on
the branch.  But be careful!  You could easily trash trunk
revisions by mistake.  And once trashed, they're trashed for
good; "cvs admin -o" CANNOT be undone.

It's probably better -- certainly safer -- to just leave the
branch alone, and tell everyone to ignore it...

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