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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: some attics coming back...
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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:42:04 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <200102041848.f14ImkV01881@vashon.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Feb 04, 2001 10:48:46 AM
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> 
> In article <200102040434.f144Y3t01970@mobile.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm
> <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I will be restoring some Attic files that existed with the
> > RELEASE_4_2 tags.  People are using cvsup to try and update 4.2-R CD
> > ports trees and cvsup is failing to delete old patches.
> 
> CVSup is "failing" only in the sense that some people aren't using it
> properly.  It _will_ reliably delete old patches if it thinks they
> belong to it.  See:
> 
>     http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html#caniadopt
> 
> as well as the two questions following it in the CVSup FAQ.
> 
> Trust me, if CVSup deleted "extra" files that didn't explicitly belong
> to it, you wouldn't like that either.  Do you value your kernel config
> files? ;-)
> 
> For those who didn't follow the procedures above and who think they
> might have some orphaned files in their trees, the standard CVSup
> distribution contains a script called "cvsupchk" which will clean
> things up.  It is in the directory "contrib/cvsupchk".  Maybe one of
> you should make a port out of it (*hint hint, nudge nudge*). :-)

Maybe it's better to add some option into cvsup, which would instruct it
to delete all orphaned files and dirs?

-Maxim


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