Philip Olson wrote:
for it to go (into the attic). As for the others, not sure why they even exist! Many contain deleted files but why do the directories remain?
It's a shortcoming of CVS. You can't "cvs remove" a directory as you would a file. The only way to remove a directory from CVS is by hacking the repository directly.
Using the -P option for update/checkout (which you should do anyway) you can locally remove the empty directories but they'll still remain in the repository.
Regards, Philip
Dave