Cvs Remove Attic Files

How can i do to make a politically correct removal of the whole thing.

Cvs remove attic files. Cvs rtag r old name 0 4 rel 0 4 tc cvs rtag d old name 0 4 tc prev up next. Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file. The file isn t actually removed from the repository. Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.

Someone has cvs remove d the files. Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file. There is only the attic directory at the very end of the tree holding the deleted files in the format filename v. Scheduling oj c for removal cvs remove.

But in case you want to know the rule is that the rcs file is stored in the attic if and only if the head revision on the trunk has state dead. Oj c version 1 1 1 1 resurrected if you realize your mistake before you run the remove command you can use update to resurrect the file. A dead state means that file has been removed or. This leaves the new tag on exactly the same files as the old tag.

When you remove a file from a project it doesn t just disappear. Ls cvs ja h oj c rm oj c cvs remove oj c cvs remove. Try a command like. If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find.

Cvs must be able to retrieve such files when you request an old snapshot of the project. It simply is stored in a special directory called attic so that its earlier revisions can be recalled the file is no longer sent to sandboxes and it is removed from existing sandboxes at the next cvs update which displays the message cvs server. Instead the file gets put in the attic literally. To rename a tag first create a new tag using the r option to cvs rtag and then delete the old name.

Filename is no. It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic. Viewing the files revealed that they re in dead state. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command.

Use cvs commit to remove this file permanently cvs add oj c u oj c cvs add. I have no interest on keeping my attic for that directory at all and i want to do this through cvs commands if possible.