10:26 a.m.
Hiyas,
according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory from cvs
with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to work. I removed
the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I cvs co'ed the pam_mount
directory again, an empty "FC-1" directory appeared. Is there some parameter
I can pass to "cvs remove" to get the directory removed, too?
Regards,
Till
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UsingCvsFaq#How_do_I_re...
10:49 a.m.
Till Maas schrieb:
Hiyas,
according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory from cvs
with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to work. I removed
the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I cvs co'ed the pam_mount
directory again, an empty "FC-1" directory appeared. Is there some parameter
I can pass to "cvs remove" to get the directory removed, too?
That is a general problem with CVS, it cannot completely remove empty
directories, as they are needed in the repository to hold the version
information for the deleted files in the directory.
You can however prevent your checkout from creating these directories by
using "cvs checkout -P", where "-P" stands for "Prune empty
directories".
Tim
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10:51 a.m.
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 16:26:38 Till Maas wrote:
Hiyas,
according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory from cvs
with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to work. I removed
the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I cvs co'ed the pam_mount
directory again, an empty "FC-1" directory appeared. Is there some
parameter I can pass to "cvs remove" to get the directory removed, too?
Regards,
Till
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UsingCvsFaq#How_do_I_remo
ve_a_branch_I_no_longer_want_or_need.3F
The way CVS works, the directory still exists in the repository. What you need
to do is run "cvs update" with the -P option (to "prune" the empty
directory).
11:05 a.m.
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:26:38 +0200
opensource(a)till.name (Till Maas) wrote:
Hiyas,
according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory
from cvs with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to work. I
removed the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I cvs co'ed the
pam_mount directory again, an empty "FC-1" directory appeared. Is
there some parameter I can pass to "cvs remove" to get the directory
removed, too?
Why are you needing to do this?
Granted, not many people should need to look at what was in FC-1 much,
but it's possible there could be something there someone would want to
look at, and now all the files in there are marked dead, so it's more
of a chore to get them to look at.
Perhaps we could look at archiving off all those old branches if they
are causing a problem?
kevin
1:31 p.m.
On Tue October 7 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:26:38 +0200
(Till Maas) wrote:
> according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch
directory
> from cvs with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to work. I
> removed the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I cvs co'ed the
> pam_mount directory again, an empty "FC-1" directory appeared. Is
> there some parameter I can pass to "cvs remove" to get the directory
> removed, too?
Why are you needing to do this?
Granted, not many people should need to look at what was in FC-1 much,
but it's possible there could be something there someone would want to
look at, and now all the files in there are marked dead, so it's more
of a chore to get them to look at.
Using the viewcvs webinterface, it is pretty easy to get the dead files:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/pam_mount/FC-1/?hideattic=0
I guess there is also some commandline option that allows to easily access
these files.
Perhaps we could look at archiving off all those old branches if
they
are causing a problem?
After I got this working, the next step was to suggest to remove all old
branches (F-7 and older) for every package in the near future.
The reason why I want this done, is that they mess up some packages, where
there are now 10 or more branch directories. Also it takes unecessarily long
for to checkout packages. Especially packages that not only have many
branches, but also a lot of patches.
Regards,
Till
12:48 p.m.
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:49 +0200
opensource(a)till.name (Till Maas) wrote:
On Tue October 7 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:26:38 +0200
>
> (Till Maas) wrote:
> > according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory
> > from cvs with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to
> > work. I removed the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I
> > cvs co'ed the pam_mount directory again, an empty "FC-1"
> > directory appeared. Is there some parameter I can pass to "cvs
> > remove" to get the directory removed, too?
>
> Why are you needing to do this?
>
> Granted, not many people should need to look at what was in FC-1
> much, but it's possible there could be something there someone
> would want to look at, and now all the files in there are marked
> dead, so it's more of a chore to get them to look at.
Using the viewcvs webinterface, it is pretty easy to get the dead
files:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/pam_mount/FC-1/?hideattic=0
I guess there is also some commandline option that allows to easily
access these files.
I suppose.
> Perhaps we could look at archiving off all those old branches
if
> they are causing a problem?
After I got this working, the next step was to suggest to remove all
old branches (F-7 and older) for every package in the near future.
Why not ask infrastructure to see about moving those all off to a
archive site/location?
The reason why I want this done, is that they mess up some packages,
where there are now 10 or more branch directories.
Oh? how?
Also it takes
unecessarily long for to checkout packages. Especially packages that
not only have many branches, but also a lot of patches.
That shouldn't be a function of how many branches there are, but how
many files/revisions are in CVS for the files you are checking out.
Wouldn't it be better to look at moving to a newer VCS that can handle
this case better? You might look and add that as a desired feature for
the next VCS.
Regards,
Till
kevin
1:30 p.m.
On Wed October 8 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:49 +0200
opensource(a)till.name (Till Maas) wrote:
> On Tue October 7 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Perhaps we could look at archiving off all those old
branches if
> > they are causing a problem?
>
> After I got this working, the next step was to suggest to remove all
> old branches (F-7 and older) for every package in the near future.
Why not ask infrastructure to see about moving those all off to a
archive site/location?
I created a ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/893
> The reason why I want this done, is that they mess up some
packages,
> where there are now 10 or more branch directories.
Oh? how?
I meant, that they mess up the package directory, i.e. harder to see which
branches are there.
> Also it takes
> unecessarily long for to checkout packages. Especially packages that
> not only have many branches, but also a lot of patches.
That shouldn't be a function of how many branches there are, but how
many files/revisions are in CVS for the files you are checking out.
Wouldn't it be better to look at moving to a newer VCS that can handle
this case better? You might look and add that as a desired feature for
the next VCS.
Iirc Jesse Keating asked for features for the next VCS some time ago, I
already proposed it back then and it was added to the list.
Regards,
Till
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