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From: andyp@parallax.co.uk (Andy Piper)
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To: sudish@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: build report: failure with 20.0-b90 on Linux 2.0.27
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> John Turner writes:
> > If I understand you, you need to use the -P (prune) options to cvs
> > when checking out and updating.  Since that's typically what I want,
> > I have a line like this in my .cvsrc:
> 
> Another approach is to delete the directory in the repository itself.
> One of the really sweet things about cvs is how little state is stored.
> Unless you use watches extensively, that is.

You don't want to do this if you ever want to get back at nuked files.
One of the great things about cvs is you can get back to all old versions
but if you mess with the repository this is not possible.

andy

