Remove src/tapsets directory?

[Stone, Joshua I]

David Smith wrote:
> Mike Mason wrote:
>> Can we remove the src/tapsets directory from CVS?  It doesn't appear
>> to be used for anything. I assume it's left over from earlier tapset
>> work. It's confusing to newbies to have both the tapset (active) and
>> tapsets (inactive) directories.
> 
> Mike,
> 
> This is a cvs oddity/bug.  In cvs, directories aren't versioned
> objects, so you can't really remove them.  What you can do however,
> is use the '-P' (prune) switch when doing checkouts/updates to avoid
> grabbing empty directories.  To have cvs default to this behavior,
> place the following lines in your ~/.cvsrc file (creating it if
> necessary): 
> 
> checkout -P
> update -P

I usually throw a '-d' on the update as well, to make sure that it grabs
any newly added directories.


Josh