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RE: Removing Empty Directories


From: Teala Spitzbarth
Subject: RE: Removing Empty Directories
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:35:33 -0700

Hafeez,

CVS does not actually 'version' the directories - 
so there is no way to 'commit' changes to them.

You have two choices, and to the best of my understanding
the salient factor in choosing between them is whether or not you will
ever have to reproduce your source from a time when the directory
*was* there (i.e. a old tag)

        1)  if you have tags, or need to be able to reproduce old
versions of your source
                you must only run cvs remove on the files, commit the
changes
                and rely on -P to prune the empty directory from fresh
pulls.
                The files are stored in an Attic subdirectory for
retrieval on tagged 
                pulls.

        2)  if you have no tags, and truly, truly never need to
reproduce anything
                from that directory - then you can go into the
repository and do 
                a file system level remove of the directory.  If you
have files in 
                the attic within that directory - I wouldn't do this...
when its removed
                it is gone, you can never go back!

I personally only do number 2 if a developer makes a mistake and adds
new files into an
incorrect directory name... that is the only situation where I know I
will never
have to reproduce a build with those files....

Cheers,
Teala

-----Original Message-----
From: Hafeez Mohammad [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:19 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Removing Empty Directories



How to remove Empty directories from CVS repository.

I am using the following commands 

cvs remove dirname
cvs commit -m "Removing the empty directory" dirname

The above commands doesn't work.

I know that cvs -P update will Prune the Empty
directories from the checked out but I want to 
remove them from the CVS repository.

Any Suggestions ?


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