Re: 2 WinCvs suggestions - adding and deleting directory structures

On 2007-01-31 18:10:34, Ryan Robinson wrote:

> Hi, we recently needed to move a directory structure with several
> sub-directories (and hundreds of files) to a different location in a project
> to satisfy some new Makefile rules.  I did the following:
> 
> 	1. Copied the directory to the new location
> 	2. Removed existing "CVS" directories
> 	3. Checked in all directories and files in the new location
> 	4. Removed the old directory from CVS and committed.
> 
> My first suggestion is, with step 3, I pretty much had to add directories
> one at a time, then go into each directory and add files.  Looking at a list
> of state "Unknown" files in Flat Mode, the "Add" menu option always gets
> grayed out, unless ALL selected files are in the same directory.  "Add" also
> gets grayed out if you select more than 1 "Unknown" directory.  It would be
> nice if you could add several directories at once, and then select a bunch
> of files in there with Flat Mode and add them.  

Have you tried the macros under Macros | Add?

Alternatively, you may want to check out TortoiseCVS.

> The other (and more serious) problem that we had was that someone,
> unbeknownst to me, had modified several files under the old directory
> location, and had not committed any changes after a couple days of work.
> When he updated, his entire (modified) directory structure got deleted and
> was NOT put in the recycle bin.
> 
> I know if you modify a file and someone else removes it, you simply get a
> message like "X is modified but no longer in the repository."  If you then
> get the clean copy, you still a ".#" file along with the original file, and
> the message "X is not (any longer) pertinent."  That's all well and good,
> but if those files exist under another directory which was removed from the
> CVS repository, it seems that everything just gets wiped out without getting
> put in the recycle bin.

This is strange. I've never had cvsnt delete a folder that contained
non-cvsnt files (and the .# backup files are non-cvsnt files). Can you boil
this down to a command line sequence? If so, you probably should submit it
to the cvsnt support group. 

Gerhard



 
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