RE: RE: Getting rid of locks (release command doesn't do anything

[Schwenk, Jeanie]

ignore the trailing ' it was a type-o

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Schwenk, Jeanie  
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:11 AM
> To:   Cvs (E-mail); 'address@hidden'
> Subject:      RE: Getting rid of locks (release command doesn't do
> anything
> 
> Here's the brute force method to deal with locks in unix.  It's VERY
> dangerous.  You could first "exec ll" rather than "exec rm -rf" to see
> what will be deleted.  I've used this here and it works but it gets ALL
> the locks from the point you run it down.  So, if you run it from the top
> of the repo, ALL locks in the repo will go away.  This might not be what
> you want.
> 
>       find . -name "\#cvs.[rw]fl*" -print -exec rm -rf {}\'
> 
> This will remove locks that look like:
>     #cvs.wfl.dioptase.15497   (dioptase is a node name and the 15497 is
> the pid)
>     #cvs.rfl
>     #cvs.wfl
> 
> You may also have lock directories that look like this:       #cvs.lock/
> 
> 
> Just modify the above find to do the job.   
> 
> Jeanie