Hi Alfred, It looks like I need some coaching with CVS. It's been a long, long time since I used it daily.
At 2023-08-26T14:15:55-0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I asked my CVS checkout what the status of the former is. > > $ cvs status | grep html_node || echo NO RESULT > cvs status: Examining . > NO RESULT > > Which, given a fresh checkout, does not return NO RESULT; since the > directory html_node exists in CVS. That appears to be the case. > So the question remains, how did you checkout, and what did you do in > your directory. I would _guess_ that you've removed it locally, but > never done the cvs step of removing it. I don't remember at this point, but your last hypothesis seems sound. > E.g., in a fresh checkout, I do > > $ rm -rf manual/html_node > $ cvs status|grep html_node||echo NO RESULT > cvs2 status: Examining . > cvs2 status: Examining manual > cvs2 status: Examining manual/groff.html.node > NO RESULT Yes. I'm with you up to this point. After that, things start to go wrong. > $ cvsu > X manual/html_node $ cvsu cvsu: command not found I assume you had a typo, but for what, I'm not sure. > And I will bet that if you do "cvs update -PAd" .. you will once again > have that directory. Yes. Albeit with some problems. $ cvs update -PAd ? LOG ? diff ? manual/groff.html.node/Adjustment.html ? manual/groff.html.node/Argument-Units.html [...] ? manual/groff.html.node/while.html cvs update: Updating . cvs update: Updating manual cvs update: Updating manual/groff.html.node cvs update: move away `manual/groff.html.node/Adjustment.html'; it is in the way C manual/groff.html.node/Adjustment.html cvs update: move away `manual/groff.html.node/Argument-Units.html'; it is in the way [...] C manual/groff.html.node/while.html cvs update: Updating manual/html_node U manual/html_node/Additional-ms-Macros.html U manual/html_node/Argument-Units.html > To remove it, you need to do "cvs remove manual/html_node" -- or > similar. Similar, maybe, but not exactly--this suggestion fails. $ cvs remove manual/html_node cvs remove: Removing manual/html_node cvs remove: file `manual/html_node/Additional-ms-Macros.html' still in working directory cvs remove: file `manual/html_node/Argument-Units.html' still in working directory [...] cvs remove: file `manual/html_node/while.html' still in working directory cvs remove: 220 files exist; remove them first Taking its advice is not helpful. $ rm -f manual/html_node/* rm: cannot remove 'manual/html_node/CVS': Is a directory $ cvs remove manual/html_node/* cvs [remove aborted]: no such directory `manual/html_node' I'd very much appreciate your further assistance! :-O Regards, Branden
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