Cvs Remove Attic

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

Cvs remove attic.

You can t check the attic out into your sandbox but you can examine its contents through a web interface to cvs. And do a rm y so this is removed from attic then cvs removes the yoyodyme folder too. 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. To delete a file say phoenix c.

Each directory in the repository has a subdirectory called attic. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command. But because y is not cleared there is still y in hidden attic the folder x is still shown with a cvs entry also when it is empty. If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find.

A dead state means that file has been removed or. When you remove a file from the repository cvs puts it into the attic. Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file name you want. Cvs tag r 1 6 f stable backend c by default cvs doesn t allow moving and deleting branch tags as this should not be done without understanding the issues that this raises.

Removing files from the repository. Filename is no longer in the repository. Try a command like. For example the task just mentioned might be accomplished as.

It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic. To move a tag specify the f option to either cvs tag or cvs rtag. 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. Because this actions the yoyodyme folder is still cvs.

The file isn t actually removed from the repository. Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file.