I just checked there were actually files in there for like a few minutes, and they were deleted. We never used the files in the directory. It is better to just keep it there .... or remove as I asked below.... Thx KM
From: KM <[email protected]> To: cvs-user-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 11:25 AM Subject: cvs: deleting empty directories Hi All I have a question. The developer mistakenly added a directory structure that we are not going to use. I wanted to delete the directory since it never had files in it. I see the following from the guide. Should I keep the empty directory lying around, or only if I had files in it that I may want later. And If I can delete it - what is the clearest way to do it? cvs remove -f <dir name> ... and then check it in? thx KM 7.3 Removing directories In concept, removing directories is somewhat similar to removing files—you want the directory to not exist in your current working directories, but you also want to be able to retrieve old releases in which the directory existed. The way that you remove a directory is to remove all the files in it. You don’t remove the directory itself; there is no way to do that. Instead you specify the ‘-P’ option to cvs update or cvs checkout, which will cause CVS to remove empty directories from working directories. (Note that cvs export always removes empty directories.) Probably the best way to do this is to always specify ‘-P’; if you want an empty directory then put a dummy file (for example ‘.keepme’) in it to prevent ‘-P’ from removing it. Note that ‘-P’ is implied by the ‘-r’ or ‘-D’ options of checkout. This way, CVS will be able to correctly create the directory or not depending on whether the particular version you are checking out contains any files in that directory.
