Each directory in the repository has a subdirectory called attic.
Cvs put files in attic.
Your holidays might just be a lot less merry this year if you ve been storing your decorations in the attic.
Holiday decorations can be damaged by the extreme heat in attics says santoro delicate fabrics and items that are painted are particularly prone to damage when stored in the attic and plastic decorations like ornaments may melt or warp in the heat.
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.
Remove the v at the end of the file to get the file name you want.
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.
Try a command like.
Here s the relevant section from attic foo jpg v.
If you remove a file y from folder x file y is put in attic folder of x.
Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.
If a file is added on a branch it doesn t exist on the trunk so the v file goes in the attic.
Log r both of these will list the names of the rcs files used to store the file.
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.
So good so intelligent.
Now it is possible that the file was moved out of or into the attic.
Whenever a cvs file is not found on the server an error occurs.
It should not matter from a user point of view whether a file is in 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.
Cvs doesn t merely move the rcs file into attic however.
Search for missing cvs files in the attic.
You can t check the attic out into your sandbox but you can examine its contents through a web interface to cvs.
Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command.
If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find.
When you remove a file from the repository cvs puts it into the attic.
Actually the merge from branch to trunk will automatically add the file to the trunk.
Not so intelligent is that cvs has no really folder managment.
These files may be associated with old tags that should be removed moved or renamed.
