Re: [Savannah-users] Messed up CVS repository

2019-07-30 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi everyone, I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here, but especially of you're new to CVS, it might be a good idea to learn one of the newer versioning tools instead. With git being the dominant species there, and it having "adapters" for things like CVS and svn, that's what I would recom

Re: [Savannah-users] Messed up CVS repository

2019-07-30 Thread Asher Gordon
Hello Bob, Bob Proulx writes: > Since this is a new project that has only just recently been uploaded > I see no reason not to correct things manually. Normally I would > suggest either writing to savannah-hackers-public and asking for > assistence from there or filing a support ticket. But I

[Savannah-users] Discussion of version control systems (was: Messed up CVS repository)

2019-07-30 Thread Asher Gordon
Hi Marcus, Marcus Müller writes: > I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here, but especially of > you're new to CVS, it might be a good idea to learn one of the newer > versioning tools instead. With git being the dominant species there, > and it having "adapters" for things like CVS and svn

Re: [Savannah-users] Discussion of version control systems (was: Messed up CVS repository)

2019-07-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 10:48 -0400, Asher Gordon wrote: > From the man pages git-mv(1) and git-rm(1), it looks like it is > possible to move files and directories and remove files. But it > wasn't clear whether or not you could remove directories. Do you know > if this is possible? Git doesn't actu

Re: [Savannah-users] Discussion of version control systems

2019-07-30 Thread Asher Gordon
Paul Smith writes: > So simply removing all files in a directory will cause the directory to > no longer be created when you check out the commits where those files > don't exist. I see. That sounds good to me. > It does mean that you can't add an empty directory to Git. This is > very rarely

Re: [Savannah-users] Messed up CVS repository

2019-07-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Asher Gordon wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Please give your project a clean checkout and see if things are as you > > would like them to be. If not let us know! :-) > > The dead files are indeed gone, but the empty directories are still > there (in ViewVC and when you checkout without -P). Oh,