Re: Very odd cvs rm behavior, file not sent to the Attic

[S I]

Just to rule out: I assume as you mentioned, you did manually remove the 
file in the working folder via the remove command of the operating system 
and then executed cvs remove, and finally cvs commit. If you execute the 3 
steps above and still receive the odd behavior, that means a file by the 
same name in some form of upper or lower case already exists in the Attic 
subfolder and you must login directly to the server browse to that specific 
Attic directory to do some investigation or renaming, stitching, and 
merging, etc.

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Sarah Gonzales wrote:
> Hello to all!
>
> I'm experiencing some *very* odd behavior when a user attempted to  remove 
> a file from a repository and would appreciate some help. User  removed a 
> file correctly using cvs rm filename, but when he committed  the file, he 
> received a permissions error.
>
>     cvs commit: cannot rename PathToFile/util.h,v to
>     PathToFile/Attic/util.h,v: Permission denied
[...]

I don't have any suggestions to add to Pierre Asselin's, but I can offer a 
bit of explanation of what you're seeing.

Moving dead files into the Attic directory is not a requirement for 
"killing" them, it is simply an optimization to help keep things a little 
tidier in the repository. CVS should work just fine with the dead file in 
the current directory.

--
Jim



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