Remove empty directory from CVS?

Question

I\'m not quite sure how this happened, but somehow a completely empty hierarchy of directories has ended up in my repository:

com/
com/companyname/
com/compa         


        

Answer 1

CVS has a number of design flaws, never being able to get rid of a directory without losing history is one. Difficulty renaming files and directories without losing history is another.

Consider graduating to Subversion. cvs2svn does a very good job converting repositories including all branches and tags. The CVS and SVN command sets are very similar and require minimal adjustment. (And to head off this becoming a "what version control should you use" war) once you're using SVN you can move to any number of more advanced version control systems such as git or SVK.