Re: CVS and making directories go away

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

>> Does anybody know how to make a directory go away with CVS?

Hari> You don't.  You just remove (and cvs rm) all files from that
Hari> directory.  The next `cvs update -P' will remove that directory.
Hari> Note that the directory will still be on the repository.  And
Hari> you have to be careful to add the `-P' flag to every `cvs
Hari> update' that could potentially bring that directory back to
Hari> life.

I put this into my ~/.cvsrc:

	update -d -P

In practice this is almost always what you want.

Tom