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RE: Odd behaviour with dead file
From: |
CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM |
Subject: |
RE: Odd behaviour with dead file |
Date: |
Thu, 25 May 2006 17:10:23 +0100 |
Thanks Lawrence,
We were able to re-remove the file from HEAD, by doing:
cvs update -A (to remove sticky tags).
rm filename
cvs remove filename
cvs commit
Let's hope it's gone for good!
Thanks,
David Carter-Hitchin.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 25 May 2006 17:02
> To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Odd behaviour with dead file
>
>
> CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM writes:
> >
> > We've got a stange file in our repository that was 'cvs
> remove'd, i.e. state
> > 'dead' at revision 1.4 but somehow we've got version 1.5,
> 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8
> > all in state 'Exp'. Is there something that can explain
> this behaviour?
>
> Certainly -- adding a file with the same name as a dead file will
> "resurrect" the dead file.
>
> > In the reposity the ,v file is in the Attic directory.
>
> That's a problem -- if the latest revision on the trunk is alive, the
> file should be in the regular directory, not the Attic. Some older
> versions of CVS had bugs were certain (somewhat unusual) sequences of
> operations would resurrect the file but not move it out of the Attic.
> As far as I know, those have all been fixed in the current
> releases. In
> any event, you should manually move the file out of the Attic. That
> should resolve the strange behavior you're seeing.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> He's just jealous because I accomplish so much more than he
> does. -- Calvin
>
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