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I've had similar situations - you can edit the repository directly, as long as you do it with caution, and realize what impact your actions have: I've found deleting files directly from the repository is quite effective when you simply want them to be cleaned out. A possibly more widely accepted way to do it, would be to cvs rm all of the files you don't want, then clean up the Attic directories in CVS. Make sense? Aaron Kynaston akynaston at novell.com office: (801) 861-6709 cell: (801) 368-8633 fax: (801) 861-6778 Novell Inc., The leading provider in net services software. www.novell.com >>> "Samuel Neff" <srnlists at speakeasy.net> 8/19/2003 4:16:18 PM >>> We just started using CVS for a web project. The project has two root folders which I created as two modules. I didn't review the files in the project before creating the modules--big mistake. Turns out the project has 10,000+ files in it. The problem is there are three folders which are intermingled with the code folders that have uploaded images and intermediary text files. These are about 7,000 of the files and take up about 500mb. These do not need to be in CVS. Now that I've put all this junk into CVS how can I permanently remove these files from CVS including all the revision info? These files never should have been in CVS so I'm not worried about losing history or anything. If I have to I can delete the repo entirely and recreate it without these files, but then I'll lose the existing history (about two weeks of changes). Thanks, Sam _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs