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  1. RE: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directories

    Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk> — 1999-10-12T14:57:45Z

    rm?
    
    Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it
    does loose the archived stuff under that directory.
    
    Peter
    
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]
    Sent: 12 October 1999 15:53
    To: Marc G. Fournier
    Cc: PostgreSQL-development
    Subject: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directories
    
    
    Marc, I added a dead directory called interfaces/pgeasy that I have
    removed via CVS, but I know the directory still exists in the CVS tree. 
    (Now called libpgeasy).  In fact, I know there are many directories that
    are empty in the tree.
    
    Can you figure out a way to remove them from the CVSROOT tree?
    
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  2. Re: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directories

    Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-10-12T15:08:43Z

    > rm?
    > 
    > Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it
    > does loose the archived stuff under that directory.
    > 
    > Peter
    
    Yes, but in most cases we don't care.  That stuff is very old.  I don't
    know of any directory that has no valid files that needs to be saved.
    
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  3. Re: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directories

    Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1999-10-12T15:30:46Z

    On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
    
    > > rm?
    > > 
    > > Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it
    > > does loose the archived stuff under that directory.
    > > 
    > > Peter
    > 
    > Yes, but in most cases we don't care.  That stuff is very old.  I don't
    > know of any directory that has no valid files that needs to be saved.
    
    Why would we want to remove it in the first place?  If its been 'deleted',
    it won't show  up unless you want it to (cvs update -APd removed old
    files/directories)...
    
    Oops, careful in the above, it also removed any 'sticky/branch'  tags...
    
    
    Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
    Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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  4. Re: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directoriesh

    Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-10-12T15:35:07Z

    > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
    > 
    > > > rm?
    > > > 
    > > > Well it's a last resort I've used on one of my home cvs trees, but it
    > > > does loose the archived stuff under that directory.
    > > > 
    > > > Peter
    > > 
    > > Yes, but in most cases we don't care.  That stuff is very old.  I don't
    > > know of any directory that has no valid files that needs to be saved.
    > 
    > Why would we want to remove it in the first place?  If its been 'deleted',
    > it won't show  up unless you want it to (cvs update -APd removed old
    > files/directories)...
    > 
    > Oops, careful in the above, it also removed any 'sticky/branch'  tags...
    
    I just thought we could fiddle with CVS to remove the stuff totally.  No
    real need to, though. I just thought it would be confusing for people
    who didn't do -P, or people managing CVSROOT directly.
    
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  5. Re: [HACKERS] Dead CVS directoriesh

    Brian E Gallew <geek+@cmu.edu> — 1999-10-13T14:08:36Z

    Then <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> spoke up and said:
    > > Why would we want to remove it in the first place?  If its been 'deleted',
    > > it won't show  up unless you want it to (cvs update -APd removed old
    > > files/directories)...
    > > 
    > > Oops, careful in the above, it also removed any 'sticky/branch'  tags...
    > 
    > I just thought we could fiddle with CVS to remove the stuff totally.  No
    > real need to, though. I just thought it would be confusing for people
    > who didn't do -P, or people managing CVSROOT directly.
    
    There is only one good reason for "really" pruning those old
    directories out of the source tree: revision purging.  If you purge
    all revisions of the files that live in those directories (so that
    they really *are* empty), then removing the directories is a good idea.
    
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