I''ve been reading some in Programming Linux Games since they released it free on the internet, and I''ve learned a little CVS. But there''s something I''m having trouble with. A while ago I created a Sourceforge project for my little GUI thingy I was working on. I somehow managed to upload the project into a repository, but I put it in the wrong place (the directory Emptydir). Now that I know how to use CVS better I want to get rid of that and put the project in its own directory, like is customary. I have the new files uploaded into a real directory, and now I need to delete everything in Emptydir. I try ''remove'' but I don''t know how to change the working directory to Emptydir. When I do it like this: cvs remove Emptydir/blahblah it says something like "Cannot remove directory Emptydir. It has stuff in it." How can I delete EVERYTHING in Empydir?

Good luck. CVS doesn''t like removing directories :/
A first step would be to remove every single file in the Emptydir hierarchy. Then remove the lowest level directories, then the next level and so on until you can remove Emptydir.
However, there''s still going to be some garbage lying around in the repository (at least, when I last tried something like that there was). Actually, since that''s basically version logs, you could argue that it''s not garbage but useful information ...

cu,
Prefect

Thats what I mean. I cannot even remove files from the directory. When I try the "remove Emptydir/somefile" I get these errors:

cvs server: file `Emptydir/somefile'' still in working directory
cvs server: 1 file exists; remove it first

How can I remove ''somefile'' and all the other files withen Emptydir so that I can remove Emptydir itself (or at least make it EMPTY!)

First you need to remove the file on your local system

rm Emptydir/myfile

then you call cvs remove on the non-existant file (wierd I know)

cvs remove Emptydir/myfile

then you commit the removed file (wierder still)

cvs commit Emptydir/myfile

Hope that was what you needed.

X2K

[edited by - xstreme2000 on November 27, 2002 12:18:22 PM]

Ah! OK! Thanks!

I froze CVS a few times (that ''you gotta be in this working directory or else CVS will freeze'' thing always gets me) but I finally did it!

And this is why Subversion[1] is going to be a success.

[1]subversion.tigris.org


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