Michael Vanecek wrote:
> I've recently started playing with CVS on my Linux server and have put
> my latest website in it. I added an images directory to cvs and
> committed it and then added the images within it. When looking at the
> cvs repository, the new directory - images/ - is there populated by my
> images. But there's also an Attic/ directory there too. I didn't see
> anything in the CVS commands responses that indicated creating the
> directory, but I may have inadvertantly put it there when adding the
> images directory didn't produce the response I was looking for and I
> repeated the add and commit commands. Could Attic be a type of backup or
> something? I don't see any record of it in the repository, and the
> images in it are of an earlier time than the images in the proper images
> directory. Using cvs remove doesn't work - can I just delete it?
Files in the 'Attic' are "older" ones that no longer exist in the HEAD
branch. That is, if you 'cvs remove' a file, then it goes in the
Attic. This allows you to have revision history even on files that
are deleted.
You *could* delete the subdir if you don't care about the history at
all.. but if you aren't hurting for space, I'd leave it alone. More
to the point, I'd leave *everything* in the CVS root alone (except for
the CVSROOT subdir) unless you really knew how everything worked.
FWIW, I recommend reading this: http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html
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