Shawn Anderson writes:
>
> Suppose you have a subdirectory in your working copy that you no longer wish
> to keep under cvs control.
>
> cvs release foo [where foo is the said directory]
> rm -rf foo
>
> Later on, you wish to run cvs status, but the stat aborts because foo, which
> exists in the CVS Entries file for its parent, does not exist in the
> directory hierarchy.
>
> How to work around this problem?? We've tried cvs release -d foo, but we
> still get the error when running the stat [and, I'd imagine, virtually any
> other command that is driven by the CVS/Entries file.
I'm working on a fix for this problem (this is just a specific case of a
more general problem). In the meantime, about all you can do is to
manually edit the CVS/Entries file and remove the defunct subdirectory.
-Larry Jones
My "C-" firmly establishes me on the cutting edge of the avant-garde.
-- Calvin
