Cvs Remove Attic

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.

Cvs remove attic.

These files may be associated with old tags that should be removed moved or renamed. When another person checks out the module in the future they will not get the files that were removed. It only removes them from the current list and puts the files in the cvs attic. Try a command like.

T file useful with cvs. 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. Cvs rtag d rel 0 4 tc deletes the tag rel 0 4 from the module tc. How can i do to make a politically correct removal of the whole thing.

Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to. Cvs remove options files. If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find. Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file.

Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command. Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file name you want. To delete a tag specify the d option to either cvs tag or cvs rtag. 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 does not actually remove the files from the repository. 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. The directories remain there.

It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic. For a full list of options see section quick reference to cvs commands. It simply is stored in a special directory called attic so that its earlier revisions can be recalled. Note that cvs uses the dead state for its own purposes see node attic aq in the cvs manual.

A dead state means that file has been removed or. The file isn t actually removed from the repository. The cvs remove command is used to mark a file as removed in the repository.