Remove a branch directory completely from cvs

[Bill Crawford]

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 16:26:38 Till Maas wrote:
> Hiyas,
>
> according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory from cvs
> with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to work. I removed
> the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I cvs co'ed the pam_mount
> directory again, an empty "FC-1" directory appeared. Is there some
> parameter I can pass to "cvs remove" to get the directory removed, too?
>
> Regards,
> Till
>
>  [1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/UsingCvsFaq#How_do_I_remo
>ve_a_branch_I_no_longer_want_or_need.3F

The way CVS works, the directory still exists in the repository. What you need 
to do is run "cvs update" with the -P option (to "prune" the empty directory).