Cvs Remove Attic Files

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Cvs remove attic files.

What happens when you remove a file. Someone has cvs remove d the files. There is only the attic directory at the very end of the tree holding the deleted files in the format filename v. When you remove a file from a project it doesn t just disappear.

Try a command like. I have no interest on keeping my attic for that directory at all and i want to do this through cvs commands if possible. 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. Viewing the files revealed that they re in dead state.

A dead state means that file has been removed or. Ls cvs ja h oj c rm oj c cvs remove oj c cvs remove. Use cvs commit to remove this file permanently cvs add oj c u oj c cvs add. Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file.

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. 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. Cvs must be able to retrieve such files when you request an old snapshot of the project.

If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find. Filename is no. 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. It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic.

The cvs remove command is used to mark a file as removed in the repository. To rename a tag first create a new tag using the r option to cvs rtag and then delete the old name. Instead the file gets put in the attic literally. This leaves the new tag on exactly the same files as the old tag.

Cvs rtag r old name 0 4 rel 0 4 tc cvs rtag d old name 0 4 tc prev up next. Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.