On 14-Oct-00 Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>>
>> I didn't put it in the Attic when I disconnected it from the
>> build in case someone came forward screaming about removing it.
>> I figured it was much easier to back out a Makefile commit than
>> get things from the Attic back to being alive. I had actually
>> forgotten about it as no one did come forward.
>
> Up to now I always thought "the Attic" is something CVS itself
> takes care of when "cvs rm"ing files. What's that special thing
> needing manual intervention or special attention you've been
> talking about lately? Is it for performance reasons or for the
> warm fuzzy feelings of having "not too rotten a repo"?
It is where CVS puts files when you cvs rm them. You just have to
do the actual cvs rm/cvs ci. David was cautious because if he had
to back the change out, he didn't want to have to try to cvs add
all of the files back in.
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