Re: How to delete file in RCS

[Martin Burnicki]

Hi,

Sam Lee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a software project that consists of multiple files. All files are
> version-controlled by RCS. Now, I want to remove one file from the
> project (because it has become useless after I refactored my code).
> How do I delete the file, while preserving its history in RCS?
[...]

In my understanding this is not really a problem with rcs.

It should be sufficient to simply delete the working file (useless.c), 
and let the archive file (RCS/useless.c,v) in place.

However, you have to take care that the working file is not 
automatically checked out again from the archive file when you build 
your project.

Unfortunately you didn't mention *how* you build your project. If you 
use Gnu make, there are builtin Makefile rules to checkout a working 
file (useless.c) that is missing if the archive file (RCS/useless.c,v) 
still exists.

However, this should only happen if you have added the "useless" file to 
your project files, e.g. if you have an line like

  OBJS += useless.o

or similar in your Makefile. If you make sure that "useless" is not in 
the file list of your Makefile, there should be no reason why 'make' 
should checkout the working file once you have deleted it.


Best regards,

Martin
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