Re: Problem to delete CVS directories...

[Kaz Kylheku]

In article <address@hidden>, Hector
Sanchez-Villeda wrote:
>> Dear sirs,
>>
>> I have installed CVS in one of my UNIX boxes, then I included several
>> directories for testing purposes and I tryed to delete them
>permanently
>> according to CVS documentation, but it appears that the directories
>> and files went to the ATIC directory.
>>
>> How can I get rid of them?

If they are just for testing purposes, and nobody cares about them at
all, then just bypass the cvs interface and remove them directly from
the repository.

``cvs remove'' does not delete directories. When you add a directory
to a CVS module, it stays for good. The deletion of a directory
is emulated by removing all files within it, and then checking out
with empty-directory-pruning. Of course, a directory may appear deleted
to you on one branch, but it may exist for someone else on another
branch. And you can go back to a tagged release of the software in
which that directory was not empty.