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From: andyp@parallax.co.uk (Andy Piper)
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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.

As an aside, the directory must be *completely* empty for -P to work (apart
from the CVS directory and controlled files) so you need to remove nasties 
like .#somefile.1.22 which always bites me.

andy

