removing a cvs working dir

[Erik Price]

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 08:49  PM, Derek Martin wrote:

> You can simply use rm to remove the directory, if you want to.  But it
> is cleaner to use the release command of CVS.  For example:
>
>   $ cvs release -d <working_dir>
>
> This checks to see if you have any modified, but uncommitted files in
> your working directory, allowing you to do something about it before
> removing the working directory.  It also tells the repository that
> you're done with your working directory, and aren't working with the
> repository.

Thanks, that's the kind of thing I was looking for.  I didn't know 
about "release".

> The CVS manual is included with many Linux distributions in the cvs
> package, as a file called cvs.ps (yeah, it's a postscript file)...  On
> Red Hat systems, you can find it in the /usr/share/doc/cvs-<version>
> directory.  If you're going to use CVS a lot, you'll probably find it
> worth the read.  I just wish it had a TOC...

Incidentally there's a ton of documentation at http://www.cvshome.org/ 
, including entire books, but it's a lot to digest and I hadn't gotten 
to the answer to my question yet... Thanks again.



Erik





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