RE: remove a file with weird file name from CVS tree

[Jim.Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> "Conrad T. Pino" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
> news:<address@hidden>...
> > If it's really an accident and the history is moot
> > the consider removing "-S,v" file from corresponding
> > repository directory.
> 
> thanks. But our cvs admin is different from sys admin. So, I don't
> have the root passwd for the server. Maybe I'll ask the sys admin to
> remove it.
You shouldn't need root access for this. CVS doesn't operate as root, and it
manipulates the files just fine. If your cvs admin has shell access, he/she
should be able to remove the files quite easily.

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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)