On 5/28/06, Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:36:14PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> > Oh ok. Quick question: A package usually has files like "Makefile" and
> > "PLIST" and "DESCR" and so on. Once the package is no longer maintained=
,
> > these files wont be there in the repository. So does "cvs up -dP" take
> > care of removing these files from the unmaintained package directory th=
e
> > local tree, or do these files too remain?
> >
> > I would have assumed that yes, "cvs up -dP" does remove a file from the
> > local store if its not present in the repository, but then that would
> > mean all the local README.html files too would have been removed long a=
go
> > by the command (they are present locally but not in the repository).
> > Which is obviously not the case ...
>
> Because the README.html files are not under revision control, cvs doesn't
> touch them.  And if a directory is not empty, cvs up -dP doesn't prune it=