[cvsnt] Re: Ignoring files with import and later removing them

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Aug 16 22:47:07 BST 2004


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Siegfried Heintze wrote:

> I used the following command:
> 
> C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\cgi-bin>cvs import -C -n -I
> EditCaseWorkShafiSieg.pl -I test_component04.mdb -I test_component03.mdb -I
> test_component02.mdb -I test_component01.mdb -I test_components02.ldb -m
> "initial structure" CONVEX/cgi-bin vendor-tag start
> 
> I misspelled test_component*, damn! I also forgot about the emacs backup
> files with the tildes.
> 
> So I typed 
> 
> C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\cgi-bin>cvs remove convex.pl.~1~
> cvs server: file `convex.pl.~1~' still in working directory
> cvs server: 1 file exists; remove it first
> 
> 
> This seems to have worked according to "cvs ls -R". Why does it say " cvs
> server: file `convex.pl.~1~' still in working directory
> cvs server: 1 file exists; remove it first"? I want to keep the file! I just
> don't want it in the repository. Is everything fine?

You must do remove -f to tell it you *really* want to delete the file.

If you don't want to delete the file move it somewhere else first.

Tony



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