[cvsnt] Prune fails on shared volume

[Glen Starrett]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:50:02 +0200, Per Lindberg <per.lindberg at dupoint.com> 
wrote:

> cvs checkout -P foo fails to prune when you check out to a shared folder.
> (Same problem regardless if the folder is on Samba or a Win2k box).
>
> It has been mentioned on
>> tortoisecvs-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> that
> cvsnt won't prune in certain circumstances because of some timing 
> problem.
> I dunno. In any case, I think it's important that cvsnt always prunes
> consistently,
> since directories can't be deleted in CVS, and pruning is the only kosher 
> way
> to live with that.
>

It has always been the recommendation that sandboxes live on your local 
hard drive.  Try it there... that should work (and work consistently).

You can also, if you don't mind loosing history, delete the offensive 
directories from the repository.  Use caution if you do that though--there 
is no recovering once it is gone (except from an external backup, of 
course).

Regards,

-- 
Glen Starrett