Re: Remove directories from CVS repository?

[Kaz Kylheku]

"Mark A. Flacy" <address@hidden> wrote in message news:<address@hidden>...
> >>>>> "Koen" == Koen  <address@hidden> writes:
> Koen> Isn't this something people really need in the CVS system, 
> 
> No.

I obviously disagree. :)

> Koen> could it be a new feature?
> 
> Meta-CVS might be able to do that, but I haven't used that in a while.

Of course Meta-CVS can only delete directories from a Meta-CVS project,
not from a CVS project. :) It has a nice recursive rm (rm -R) to remove
entire subtrees. Of course, the removed files are just unlinked from
the directory structure; the restore command will re-link them in
lost+found off the project root, under cryptic names. To expunge
removed files, you use mcvs purge, which actually invokes cvs rm on the
versioned elements. 

By the way, I recently added support for versioning symbolic links.