[platform-team-dev] cvs file deletion problem

[John York <jry@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, I've just recently upgraded to Eclipse 3.1 and have noticed a 
problem when I delete a file in CVS. I was wondering if this is a known 
bug? Here's an overview of my setup:

My project has a lib dir in which we keep our jar files checked in (yes, 
i know this isn't a great idea). Our project relies on a second project 
within our organization. Regularly, we rebuild and replace the second 
project jar file. When we do this, we remove the existing file 
"jstor-common-20050916.jar" from CVS and then add a new file 
"jstor-common-DATE.jar".

Now, we also use the patch mechanism. We create a patch and then apply 
it on a developer integration machine. When applying the patch, it shows 
that the jar file should be removed, but then it fails to remove 
it.(This might be a windows file issue) Regardless, I do whatever I need 
to remove the file and then commit the changes to CVS.

Here's where the problem happens. On another developers machine, they 
synchronize with the checked in files. This also seems to fail removing 
the jar file. Now, however, as soon as this other developer creates a 
patch, Eclipse tries to re-checkin the deleted jar file as if they had 
added it. I don't see this problem with .java files, so maybe it's just 
a binary file problem, or maybe windows is just preventing the file from 
being deleted and the synch doesn't show the error.

This had been working fine until we upgraded from Eclipse 3.0.1 to 3.1.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
John