Re: Removing files completely?

[Joerg Faschingbauer]

From: Boris <address@hidden>
Subject: Removing files completely?
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:20:09 -0800

> Hello info-cvs,
> 
> Some weeks ago I have commited some silly files not necessary in
> general to my cvs tree -(
> 
> Later I made cvs remove or similar, but the files are still somewhere
> in the cvsroot.
> 
> Is there a way to remove theses files completely? I have a big
> cvsroot with some MBs of data completely not necessary and I have to
> remove them to have smaller backups -((((
> 
> I would be pleased to get any suggestions. Can I simply remove the
> files directly from  the cvsroot?

Yes, with one caveat. If users have checked-out copies of the files
you remove they will get errors during CVS operations. So be sure that
this isn't the case.

Joerg