Cvs Remove Attic

Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.

Cvs remove attic.

There is only the attic directory at the very end of the tree holding the deleted files in the format filename v. To take a file to or from the dead state use commands like cvs remove and cvs add see node adding and removing aq in the cvs manual not cvs admin s. This command does not actually remove the file from the repository until you commit the removal. The cvs remove command is used to mark a file as removed in the repository.

There is no easy way to perform these tasks for files in the attic directory using cvs tag but cvs rtag provides the a option which applies d and f to tags in removed files i e in the attic from the appropriate module or directory. Cvs remove options files. It only removes them from the current list and puts the files in the cvs attic. If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find.

How can i do to make a politically correct removal of the whole thing. It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic. Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file. T file useful with cvs.

When another person checks out the module in the future they will not get the files that were removed. The directories remain there. Cvs rtag d rel 0 4 tc deletes the tag rel 0 4 from the module tc. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command.

For a full list of options see section quick reference to cvs commands. Cvs remove does not actually remove the files from the repository. It simply is stored in a special directory called attic so that its earlier revisions can be recalled. When we say move a tag we mean to make the same name point to different revisions.

A dead state means that file has been removed or. Try a command like. The file isn t actually removed from the repository. These files may be associated with old tags that should be removed moved or renamed.

Schedule file s to be removed from the repository files which have not already been removed from the working directory are not processed. I have no interest on keeping my attic for that directory at all and i want to do this through cvs commands if possible. Note that cvs uses the dead state for its own purposes see node attic aq in the cvs manual.