[Biojava-dev] Re: CVS question

[Michael L. Heuer]

Correct -- the only way to completely remove a directory from cvs is to
remove it from the repository.  This isn't really a problem unless there
are multiple working copies of the directory and someone tries to commit
after the directory has been removed.

   michael

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Matthew Pocock wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> I've got realy flakey connectivity at the moment. Hopefully things will
> change soon. I think to start again from scratch, you have 2 options.
> Firstly, you can cvs remove all files. Secondly, you can actualy hack
> the cvs repository. Option 2 is scarey and can't be undone and should
> realy only be attempted by one of the biojava admin people. You can do
> option 1 yourself. Just make sure that all future checkouts use
> something like "cvs co -Pd" to ensure that all the empty directories are
> not visible. CVS doesn't seem to let you delete directories. Here's
> waiting for subversion.
>
> Matthew
>
> Patrick McConnell wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have made some significant changes to what I originally placed in the
> > webservices biojava module.  I am not familiar with CVS.  Is there a way to
> > remove eveything that is there and start from scratch?
> >
> > I have created classes for two 'data types' (blast and msaml), and I have
> > built two web services (blast and clustalw).  Web services are job-based
> > and have a common base class that handles much of the work.
> >
> > I think this is a good model to begin discussion on what web services
> > should be like in biojava.
> >
> > I have also written up some documentation on how things work and how to
> > test out what I've done.
> >
> > -Patrick
> >
>
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