Thread: RE: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directories
rm? Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it does loose the archived stuff under that directory. Peter -- Peter Mount Enterprise Support Maidstone Borough Council Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us] Sent: 12 October 1999 15:53 To: Marc G. Fournier Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directories Marc, I added a dead directory called interfaces/pgeasy that I have removed via CVS, but I know the directory still exists in the CVS tree. (Now called libpgeasy). In fact, I know there are many directories that are empty in the tree. Can you figure out a way to remove them from the CVSROOT tree? -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ************
> rm? > > Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it > does loose the archived stuff under that directory. > > Peter Yes, but in most cases we don't care. That stuff is very old. I don't know of any directory that has no valid files that needs to be saved. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania19026
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > rm?
> >
> > Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it
> > does loose the archived stuff under that directory.
> >
> > Peter
>
> Yes, but in most cases we don't care. That stuff is very old. I don't
> know of any directory that has no valid files that needs to be saved.
Why would we want to remove it in the first place? If its been 'deleted',
it won't show up unless you want it to (cvs update -APd removed old
files/directories)...
Oops, careful in the above, it also removed any 'sticky/branch' tags...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > rm? > > > > > > Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it > > > does loose the archived stuff under that directory. > > > > > > Peter > > > > Yes, but in most cases we don't care. That stuff is very old. I don't > > know of any directory that has no valid files that needs to be saved. > > Why would we want to remove it in the first place? If its been 'deleted', > it won't show up unless you want it to (cvs update -APd removed old > files/directories)... > > Oops, careful in the above, it also removed any 'sticky/branch' tags... I just thought we could fiddle with CVS to remove the stuff totally. No real need to, though. I just thought it would be confusing for people who didn't do -P, or people managing CVSROOT directly. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania19026
Then <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> spoke up and said: > > Why would we want to remove it in the first place? If its been 'deleted', > > it won't show up unless you want it to (cvs update -APd removed old > > files/directories)... > > > > Oops, careful in the above, it also removed any 'sticky/branch' tags... > > I just thought we could fiddle with CVS to remove the stuff totally. No > real need to, though. I just thought it would be confusing for people > who didn't do -P, or people managing CVSROOT directly. There is only one good reason for "really" pruning those old directories out of the source tree: revision purging. If you purge all revisions of the files that live in those directories (so that they really *are* empty), then removing the directories is a good idea. -- ===================================================================== | JAVA must have been developed in the wilds of West Virginia. | | After all, why else would it support only single inheritance?? | ===================================================================== | Finger geek@cmu.edu for my public key. | =====================================================================