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From: John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: build report: failure with 20.0-b90 on Linux 2.0.27
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I wrote:
 > If I understand you, you need to use the -P (prune) option to cvs
 > when checking out and updating.

Sudish wrote:
 > 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.
 
Andy Piper writes:
 > 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.

Exactly.

