[cvsnt] Re: deleting a module from repository

[Siegfried Heintze]

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>From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Glen Starrett
>Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:44 PM
>To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
>Subject: [cvsnt] Re: deleting a module from repository
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>abhishek jaiswal wrote:
>> however I failed to find anything on deleting a module from the
>> repository.
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>You can't delete a module from the repository with CVS.  You can cvs rm 
>all the files within it, then use cvs up -P to prune empty directories, 
>but there is no way to get CVS to destroy your revision history like that.
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>If you really, truly, absolutely do not want an entire module in your 
>repository and can safely go without any history on it (did you get the 
>point?), then you can delete the module directly out of the repository.

Can you elaborate on your emphasis? Why might we be so reluctant to delete
directories in the repository?

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>Glen Starrett