Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command.
Cvs put files in attic.
Not so intelligent is that cvs has no really folder managment.
Search for missing cvs files in the attic.
There is no easy way to perform these tasks for files in the attic directory using cvs tag but cvs rtag provides the a option which applies d and f to tags in removed files i e in the attic from the appropriate module or directory.
It also commits a new revision into the file with a special revision state of dead.
When you want to merge your work into the trunk you ll need to add those new files on the trunk after which the v file will be moved out of the attic.
Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.
But because y is not cleared there is still y in hidden attic the folder x is still shown with a cvs entry also when it.
Try a command like.
If you remove a file y from folder x file y is put in attic folder of x.
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Then grab the contents of the revision and add it back in.
If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find.
Cvs doesn t merely move the rcs file into attic however.
Instead the file gets put in the attic literally.
A dead state means that file has been removed or.
If a file is added on a branch it doesn t exist on the trunk so the v file goes in the attic.
This means that you shouldn t use directories named attic in your projects.
These files may be associated with old tags that should be removed moved or renamed.
Here s the relevant section from attic foo jpg v.
Then the cvs get this file back from this hidden folder.
The simplest method i ve found so far is to run cvs status file txt to find out the revision number.
17 2008 and discarded.
But in case you want to know the rule is that the rcs file is stored in the attic if and only if the head revision on the trunk has state dead.
Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file.
I don t know how these files got into this state unless someone manually moved them out of the attic.
Actually the merge from branch to trunk will automatically add the.
So good so intelligent.
These files are marked dead but they are not in the attic.
Cvs update p r rev file txt file txt cvs add file txt cvs commit.
