Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

[Antony Paul]

I work on a maintenance project. There will be more than one task
delivered at one time. The onsite guy will checkout the files by task,
and test. If a task is OK then the working copy is tagged by task
number. If any of the task is not working and it is a new file that
has to be deleted in order to not tag this with other tasks. That task
may be left untouched for several days till it is fixed and new tasks
may be delivered in between. So it is difficult to document and
exclude these files over a period of time. It will be nice if I could
give a script to delete the files.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:12:29 -0500, Jim.Hyslop <address@hidden> wrote:
> Antony Paul wrote:
> > It will become complicated to keep the list of files. Better I will
> > write a script to delete the file from CVS/Entries file.
> 
> If this is something you are going to do on a regular basis, then sooner or
> later this will turn around and bite you - hard.
> 
> I *strongly* recommend you find another way to do this. Manually editing CVS
> administrative files should be considered a one-time, last resort option to
> fix one specific problem.
> 
> --
> Jim Hyslop
> Senior Software Designer
> Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
> Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )
> 


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Antony Paul
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