Cvs Remove Attic Files

I ve moved the files out of the attic folder but when i checkout the folder the cvs gui doesn t show any files under the folder.

Cvs remove attic files.

It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command. 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. Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file.

Someone has cvs remove d the files. 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. I have no interest on keeping my attic for that directory at all and i want to do this through cvs commands if possible. Try a command like.

If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find. Filename is no. Use cvs commit to remove this file permanently cvs add oj c u oj c cvs add. Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.

To rename a tag first create a new tag using the r option to cvs rtag and then delete the old name. Cvs rtag r old name 0 4 rel 0 4 tc cvs rtag d old name 0 4 tc prev up next. Viewing the files revealed that they re in dead state. The file isn t actually removed from the repository.

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. Scheduling oj c for removal cvs remove. Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file.

Instead the file gets put in the attic literally. There is only the attic directory at the very end of the tree holding the deleted files in the format filename v. 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. Ls cvs ja h oj c rm oj c cvs remove oj c cvs remove.

How can i do to make a politically correct removal of the whole thing. A dead state means that file has been removed or.