23 November 2017 | 1 min read

Remove .cvs folder from GIT repo

CVS (Concurrent Version Control) is very old source code control but it still use nowadays for certain project, even BSD ports still using CVS. I don’t like cvs because it hard and difficult to control especially when branching are treat like repos, it will be disaster to rollback when suddenly the source / system are unstable.

For those who are using GIT services as tracer of source code changes versus CVS, you may encounter this problem where you will see a folder named .cvs on each folder of your code.

If you want to delete this folder, access you project / module via terminal and use this command to find folder .cvs and then destroy it:

$ find . -name '.cvs' | xargs git rm -rf --ignore-unmatch

Last, add changes to local and push your code back to git origin server.

Robbi Nespu | CVS, Fedora, Git


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