Modifying the Repository: Add, Remove, Rename

add: Add Files to a CVS Repository

Use the add command to enroll new files in cvs records of your working directory. The files will be added to the repository the next time you run commit.

Note: You should use the import command to bootstrap new sources into the source repository. add is only used for new files to an already checked-out module.

remove: Removing Files and Directories

To remove a file, but remain able to retrieve old revisions, do the following:

Make sure that you have not made any uncommitted modifications to the file (to check this use diff, status or update).
Remove the file from your working copy of the directory. You can for instance use the shell command rm.
Apply `cvs remove FILENAME' to tell CVS that you really want to delete the file.
Use `cvs commit FILENAME' to actually perform the removal of the file from the repository.

Removing directories:

Removing directories is similar to removing files. You remove all the files in it.
But you do not remove the directory itself; there is no way to do that.
Instead you specify the `-P' option to `cvs update' or `cvs checkout',
which will cause CVS to remove empty directories from working directories.