Who do I need to talk to in order to get my cvs directory wiped clean so I can recommit everything? It has become a real mess, and needs to be cleaned up.
We’re working that through with a couple of the other projects now. I’ll let you know once we get some answers.
Any news on this?
Psssst! These are the sorts of delays that get people complaining in other threads 
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No luck yet. I’ll pass the word on the collabnet folks to let them know there are more people who need this. They’re extremely reluctant to do this, and AFAICT they want to charge extra for the service.
If I don’t get any straight answers from them, the fallback is to create a new project (called jME1-0 or something like that) check the newly organized content into it and then delete the old project. Not ideal, but it may be faster than waiting for the collabnet folks to do something.
Thanks Athomas, I know these kind of things must be a pain. But we have multiple people committing, and a few of them were new to using CVS so mistakes were made before I could catch them. Then there’s the reorginization aspect as we refactor code. Etc, etc. After awhile things tend to get rather ugly. If creating the new project name is the easiest for you just let me know.
While I know you guys probably aren’t using it, IntelliJ will actually refactor a project all the way through to CVS.
[quote]While I know you guys probably aren’t using it, IntelliJ will actually refactor a project all the way through to CVS.
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I don’t suppose it helps with tracing the history of a project which has been refactored.
[quote]I don’t suppose it helps with tracing the history of a project which has been refactored.
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Subversion is probably more suited for major project changes.
If one of the people at Sun has write access to the jME repository, they could remove it (carefully).
[quote]While I know you guys probably aren’t using it, IntelliJ will actually refactor a project all the way through to CVS.
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I haven’t used IntelliJ so I’m not sure if it is the same level of integration, but Eclipse does this also. I know there are a lot of Eclipse users around here.
Right, we use Eclipse, but it can’t delete the cvs directories that hang around after moving a file. Our mess consists of quite a few empty directories. So, exploring via dev.java.net webcvs tools is quite ugly.
The final word on this is that collabnet is willing to delete empty directories - although I have heard this will create problems for the history files. The other way, as suggested is to create a new project and wipe out the old but this will again lose the history files.
We will continue to work at let everyone know if we get anywhere.
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I brought this up in the board meeting and there is little Sun can do. The architecture is a collabnet thing so Sun can’t get the additionall access rights necessary to make it possible for the end users to do it themselves but we’re working on a way to handle it. may take a little while though since all of the collabnet solutions cost money that we ain’t got
Thanks Greg,
I think I might take Athomas on his offer to create a new jme project and just delete the old one.
But yes, allowing the end user to delete directories would be fantastic.
It usually takes them a few days to transfer the project to the games inbox, so make sure I’ve had a chance to approve the new project before you delete the old one.