Re: error removing a directory from my working directory

2005-02-02 Thread Larry Jones
Kerry Tang writes: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! This is ok if I have one or even two

RE: error removing a directory from my working directory

2005-02-02 Thread Kerry Tang
Title: RE: error removing a directory from my working directory Thanks for your responses. I am still trying to learn and understand how CVS works. From reading the CVS manual, it seems like the only way to remove a subdirectory is to remove all the files within it, and then commit

RE: error removing a directory from my working directory

2005-01-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Kerry Tang wrote: In this directory that I wanted to remove, I typed rm *.* This removed everything in the directory (including the CVS directories that CVS automatically creates when you add directories and files to the repository). This is a mistake, right? Not a big one. CVS should

RE: error removing a directory from my working directory

2005-01-28 Thread Kerry Tang
Title: RE: error removing a directory from my working directory Thanks for your response. So right now, there are no traces of this directory (the directory itself, and all its subdirectories and files and CVS dirs) in my working directory, but it is still there in the repository. I've

Re: error removing a directory from my working directory

2005-01-28 Thread Larry Jones
Kerry Tang writes: Now when I want to get a working copy of the directory I just got rid of: cvs checkout dir_name I get the error cannot find module 'dir_name' -ignored what does this mean? How can I do this? It means that the directory you just got rid of was not a top-level directory