Cvs Checkout Attic Files

The command will only generate output for serious problems.

Cvs checkout attic files.

A dead state means that file has been. Global options the available cvs options that are given to the left of cvs command are. 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.

Viewing the files revealed that they re in dead state. This will create a sub directory module and check out the files from the repository into the sub directory for you to work on. If you don t specify a command name cvs h displays a summary of all the commands available q causes the command to be really quiet. Try a command like.

H display usage information about the specified cvs command but do not actually execute the command. Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to. Use checkout to create a new sandbox and use update to modify an existing sandbox. 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. Someone has cvs remove d the files.