Comments on: Delete CVS files

By: arni

arni — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:12:00 +0000

great work man thx

By: Adhi

Adhi — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:31:00 +0000

Daniel,

This is amazing!! This is saving huge time.
Thanks a lot!!

By: Danno

Danno — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:18:00 +0000

Jm4n. Thanks for the tip.
I use it in a batch file. if you want to run it on the command line you’ll need to take out one percent sign:

Eg: (for testing)
for /f “tokens=*” %i in (’dir /b/a/s CVS*’) do @echo “%%i”

By: Jm4n

Jm4n — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:15:00 +0000

In the first code snippet there seems to be a mistake with the double percent signs. You want to use it from the command line, right? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/75634

By: Chronicles of a Catholic Geek » Blog Archive » CVS Folder Cleanup Script

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:46:00 +0000

[...] http://www.danieltome.com/blog.....cvs-files/ [...]

By: Danno

Danno — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:56:00 +0000

@monoclast you are right. It will delete every folder starting with CVS. I’ve tried removing the asterix but it doesn’t work

I don’t think any project will have any folder starting with CVS, but it could be an issue.

By: emma nzs

emma nzs — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:14:00 +0000

Great stuff!!!

[url=][/url]

By: monoclast

monoclast — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:03:00 +0000

I just tried your batch file and noticed it deletes all folders whose names start with CVS, including folders that are not the hidden CVS sub-folders. That’s a bad idea! It should only delete folders whose names are explicitly “CVS”.

I notice you have:

for /f “tokens=*” %%i in (’dir /b/a/s CVS*’) do @rmdir /q /s “%%i”

Would simply changing it to this fix that problem?:

for /f “tokens=*” %%i in (’dir /b/a/s CVS’) do @rmdir /q /s “%%i”

By: Henk

Henk — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:57:00 +0000

Thanks Daniel, i needed this!

By: Danno

Danno — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:27:00 +0000

Yes, but sometimes it’s easier to copy everything. Or if I want to upload something quick and don’t want to export, I just delete the whole CVS files. Anyways, I know it is a bad practice, though I use a lot of times.

cheers,

By: pan69

pan69 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:28:00 +0000

I don’t use CVS (subversion instead) but shouldn’t you be making an export from CVS to get your files instead of copying files/folders?