[cvsnt] Prune fails on shared volume

[Per Lindberg]

Glen Starrett <grstarrett at cox.net> skriver:
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>> cvs checkout -P foo fails to prune when you check out to a shared folder.
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>> (Same problem regardless if the folder is on Samba or a Win2k box).
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>It has always been the recommendation that sandboxes live on your local 
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>hard drive.  Try it there... that should work (and work consistently).

It does, but that's not an option for us. [Long boring reason omitted].
Besides, it's hard to see why the behaviour should be different on
certain folders but not others.
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>You can also, if you don't mind loosing history, delete the offensive 
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>directories from the repository.  Use caution if you do that though--there 
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>is no recovering once it is gone (except from an external backup, of 
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>course).

I presume that The Right Thing then would be to move (not delete) the obsolete
subdirectories from the CVS repository elsewhere?