[OctDev] removing directories from CVS

[<Kai...@t-...>]

Hello,

I have commited some scripts to get a bit familiar with cvs. Now I have
a problem with removing the topdirs contrib and dld. I followed the
description in the cvs documentation.

Thats what I tried.

1. checkout i.e. the dld dir
cvs -z3 -dk...@cv...:/cvsroot/octave co dld 

2. cd dld

3. update using -P option 'prune'
cvs -z3 -dk...@cv...:/cvsroot/octave update -P

the subdirs are now removed at my local copy but not at the server.

How do get rid of these dirs?
Ahh I just read in the doc:

The -P option tells update to "prune" any empty directories - that is,
to remove them from the working copy. Once that's done, the directory
can
be said to have been removed; all of its files are gone, and the
directory itself is gone (from the working copy, at least, although
there is actually
still an empty directory in the repository). 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So option -P does not work for this purpose.

More confused.
I will look at this tomorrow.


Bye Kai
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Kai Habel
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