[Bioperl-l] Re: CVS directory delete

Juguang Xiao juguang at tll.org.sg
Thu May 8 20:09:51 EDT 2003


>
> The reason you (usually) can't delete directories is that CVS needs 
> them
> to store old versions of files.  Even if those files are not needed 
> now,
> and have been cvs remove'd, CVS still keeps the old versions in case 
> you
> need them.  You might one day need an old version of Ensembl, for
> example, and you would be fairly unhappy if you couldn't get back the
> appropriate version of ensembl-map, even though it is currently unused.
>

Thanks, James. That is the point. After this managical decision issue, 
by replacing 'remove' with 'move' to somewhere outside the repository, 
do you think that will cause any technical CVS crash, conflict, puzzle, 
or WebCVS negative effect?

Juguang

Juguang Xiao
Bioinformatics Engineer, Computational Biology
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
National University of Singapore
1 Research Link,  Singapore 117604



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