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Glen Starrett <grstarrett at cox.net> skriver: > > >> cvs checkout -P foo fails to prune when you check out to a shared folder. > >> (Same problem regardless if the folder is on Samba or a Win2k box). > > >It has always been the recommendation that sandboxes live on your local > >hard drive. Try it there... that should work (and work consistently). It does, but that's not an option for us. [Long boring reason omitted]. Besides, it's hard to see why the behaviour should be different on certain folders but not others. > > >You can also, if you don't mind loosing history, delete the offensive > >directories from the repository. Use caution if you do that though--there > >is no recovering once it is gone (except from an external backup, of > >course). I presume that The Right Thing then would be to move (not delete) the obsolete subdirectories from the CVS repository elsewhere?