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Merrill, I believe that, as Bo indicated, the Base directory is used by the cvs edit/unedit commands. If you had done a cvs unedit, cvs would have restored your files from the Base directory. If you nuke the Base directory, then I believe cvs unedit would no longer work. The CVS folder is where CVS stores the data it requires to operate correctly. Almost all programs "do things behind your back so that you have no idea why it was done or what the consequences are". Visual Studio .NET, for example, creates a bunch of binary files in your project directory when you create/build a project. I don't know what they are. Should I just delete them? Probably not if I want my project to continue to work. Rick -- Rick Genter Principal Engineer Silverlink Communications <mailto:rgenter at silverlink.com> (781) 272-3080 x242 -----Original Message----- From: Merrill Cornish [mailto:merrill.cornish at earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:42 AM To: Rick Genter; Bo Berglund; cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: RE: [cvsnt] CVS/Base Directory? Rick, >>> Personally, I think it would be a bad idea Perhaps, but I think it's a bad idea for CVS to do things behind your back so that you have no idea why it was done or what the consequences are. If I had needed a restore of the original files early on, these directories wouldn't have helped me since I didn't know they were there until I happened upon them weeks later. Our CVS admin wasn't sure what they were either. Is there a "correct" way to get CVS to remove the Base directories itself? The contents of these Base directories are now badly out of date, so if CVS does suddenly decide to magically help me by restoring them, I'm going to have a lot of files to recover. (Assuming I noticed when it happened rather than just suddenly having all of my scripts fail.) Also, the presence of those Base directories is making search-for-file-content searches return double the number of entries--one for a hit in the real directory and one for the hit in the Base directory. It's a mess. Merrill