Re: Hack to remove empty dir from CVS repository

[Russ Sherk]

Hold on there.  DataProvider is a directory under $CVSROOT?  This
means that it is a module.  Does this directory get checked out when
you check out another module?

(The way your question is posed, it appears that you are seeing
DataProvider as a sub dir of other checked out modules.)

--Russ

On 4/25/05, Thomas Phelan <address@hidden> wrote:
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> I understand it is not possible to remove a directory from CVS.  The best
> you can do remove every file in it and prune (-P) the empty dir every time
> you do a checkout or update of the module that contains the directory. 
> 
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> 
> I want to get around this limitation by manually deleting a directory inside
> my CVS repository.  I would like to hear a guru tell me which files need to
> be tweaked under CVSROOT to keep my repository stable after I do this. 
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> I want to delete a directory, DataProvider, that is immediately under my
> $CVSROOT directory.  It is completely empty and has never contained any
> files.  There is nothing in it, not even a CVS dir.  
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> $ cd $CVSROOT 
> 
> $ ls 
> 
> CVSROOT/       DataProvider/  Meteor2.1/     Meteor3.2/ 
> 
> $ cd DataProvider 
> 
> $ ls 
> 
> $ 
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> I did a grep of the configuration files in CVSROOT for DataProvider to see
> if there were any references I had to delete and found nothing. 
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> $ cd $CVSROOT/CVSROOT 
> 
> $ grep DataProvider * 
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> $ 
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> So, is it ok for me to just do the following? 
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> $ cd $CVSROOT 
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> $ rmdir DataProvider 
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> Thanks. 
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