Re: Question about convenient and automated committing

[Larry Jones]

Hans Schwaebli writes:
> 
> If I deleted some files in a folder and I delete the same folder
> itself, what CVS command do I need to commit this change?
>    
>   "ci" does not work.

Yes it does, just not in the way you expect.

>   I see it in Eclipse that the folder is not deleted in CVS afterwards.

That's because there's no such thing as a deleted folder in CVS.  CVS
only manages files, it does not manage directories (folders).  It simply
uses directories to organize the files that it is managing.  There is a
-P flag to checkout and update that deletes empty directories from
working directories to avoid clutter -- you may want to add them to your
~/.cvsrc file(s).

-Larry Jones

Let's pretend I already feel terrible about it, and that you
don't need to rub it in any more. -- Calvin