If a file is added on a branch it doesn t exist on the trunk so the v file goes in the attic.
Cvs put files in attic.
There is no easy way to perform these tasks for files in the attic directory using cvs tag but cvs rtag provides the a option which applies d and f to tags in removed files i e in the attic from the appropriate module or directory.
Not so intelligent is that cvs has no really folder managment.
If you remove a file y from folder x file y is put in attic folder of x.
Search for missing cvs files in the attic.
Whenever a cvs file is not found on the server an error occurs.
In this case the patched code looks for the file also in the attic if the file was not found outside the attic of outside the attic if the file could not be found within the attic as i do not have write access to the reviewboard repository the contents of the review cannot be commited by me.
Cvs doesn t merely move the rcs file into attic however.
When you remove a file from the repository cvs puts it into the attic.
Then the cvs get this file back from this hidden folder.
When you want to merge your work into the trunk you ll need to add those new files on the trunk after which the v file will be moved out of the attic.
Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file.
Now it is possible that the file was moved out of or into the attic.
These files may be associated with old tags that should be removed moved or renamed.
But because y is not cleared there is still y in hidden attic the folder x is still shown with a cvs entry also when it is empty.
Each directory in the repository has a subdirectory called attic.
It also commits a new revision into the file with a special revision state of dead.
If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find.
Here s the relevant section from attic foo jpg v.
Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.
You can t check the attic out into your sandbox but you can examine its contents through a web interface to cvs.
Try a command like.
Actually the merge from branch to trunk will automatically add the file to the trunk.
It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in the attic.
But in case you want to know the rule is that the rcs file is stored in the attic if and only if the head revision on the trunk has state dead.
So good so intelligent.
Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file name you want.
In each repository directory of a project the presence of an attic subdirectory means that at least one file has been removed from that directory this means that you shouldn t use directories named attic in your projects.
