Re: erasing history

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> Suppose I was experimenting with a few 
> cvs features and later wanted to delete
> any record of my checkins and updates etc.
> Is there any reason why it would be a bad idea
> to delete the offending lines from 
> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history?

Only that there's no locking, so if anyone does anything that's recorded
in the history file while you're editing it, it will get lost when you
save your edited version.

> I was going to also delete any directories
> I created in the repository and changes in
> the sandboxDir/CVS/Entries file as well.

That's fine.

> Is this everything? Is there a better way?

If you did any experimenting in an existing directory (and it sounds
like you did, or you wouldn't be talking about editing the Entries
file), you may find CVS/fileattr files in the repository directory that
need to be deleted or edited.

-Larry Jones

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