Re: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directoriesh

> 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.

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