Re: Files got deleted from CVS: What could be the reason ?

[Jim Hyslop]

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Manish Joshi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> A lot of Files and folders have got deleted from CVS.
> What could be all the possible reasons of this corruption ?
> 
> I suspect if somebody starts a checkout and breaks it halfway through,
> is this might be the reason ? But actually it should not delete files
> from repository for whatever client actions.  specifically the chakeou
> command was issued in this case logging in from 'putty' (i think
> SSH).to the unix CVS server.

You are right, CVS will never physically remove files from the
repository, and it certainly never removes directories. This problem was
not caused by CVS but by some other agent.

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