A dead state means that file has been removed or.
Cvs remove attic.
Cvs remove options files.
Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file name you want.
How can i do to make a politically correct removal of the whole thing.
The directories remain there.
When another person checks out the module in the future they will not get the files that were removed.
Cvs rtag d rel 0 4 tc deletes the tag rel 0 4 from the module tc.
Try a command like.
For a full list of options see section quick reference to cvs commands.
Cvs remove does not actually remove the files from the repository.
Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.
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.
The file isn t actually removed from the repository.
If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find.
Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file.
It simply is stored in a special directory called attic so that its earlier revisions can be recalled.
Note that cvs uses the dead state for its own purposes see node attic aq in the cvs manual.
When we say move a tag we mean to make the same name point to different revisions.
To take a file to or from the dead state use commands like cvs remove and cvs add see node adding and removing aq in the cvs manual not cvs admin s.
This command does not actually remove the file from the repository until you commit the removal.
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.
Schedule file s to be removed from the repository files which have not already been removed from the working directory are not processed.
These files may be associated with old tags that should be removed moved or renamed.
The cvs remove command is used to mark a file as removed in the repository.
To delete a tag specify the d option to either cvs tag or cvs rtag.
T file useful with cvs.
There is only the attic directory at the very end of the tree holding the deleted files in the format filename v.
It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic.