Cvs Put Files In Attic

17 2008 and discarded.

Cvs put files in attic.

Here s the relevant section from attic foo jpg v. When you want to merge your work into the trunk you ll need to add those new files on the trunk after which the v file will be moved out of the attic. The simplest method i ve found so far is to run cvs status file txt to find out the revision number. Instead the file gets put in the attic literally.

I don t know how these files got into this state unless someone manually moved them out of the attic. Actually the merge from branch to trunk will automatically add the. These files are marked dead but they are not in the attic. A dead state means that file has been removed or.

It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic. Try a command like. Not so intelligent is that cvs has no really folder managment. Then grab the contents of the revision and add it back in.

Search for missing cvs files in the attic. Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file. Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to. When you cvs rm a file it gets marked dead and moved into the attic.

This means that you shouldn t use directories named attic in your projects. Cvs doesn t merely move the rcs file into attic however. Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file. But because y is not cleared there is still y in hidden attic the folder x is still shown with a cvs entry also when it.

It also commits a new revision into the file with a special revision state of dead. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command. There is no easy way to perform these tasks for files in the attic directory using cvs tag but cvs rtag provides the a option which applies d and f to tags in removed files i e in the attic from the appropriate module or directory. If a file is added on a branch it doesn t exist on the trunk so the v file goes in the attic.

Then the cvs get this file back from this hidden folder. If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find. If you remove a file y from folder x file y is put in attic folder of x. These files may be associated with old tags that should be removed moved or renamed.

So good so intelligent.