What the devil is a CVS file?

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What the devil is a CVS file?

There has been a pesky file hanging around my hard drive that I don't want to delete out of fear for my computer. The folder is simply /CVS and it has the files Entries, Repository, and Root within. Each file is only about 4kb, but I don't like the file cluttering up my hard drive. Is this CVS file necessary and supposed to be hidden or can it be safely deleted?

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Mac OS X (10.6.3), Macbook Pro 2.66 GHz

Posted on May 27, 2010 6:09 PM

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dbsneddon

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May 27, 2010 6:36 PM in response to CRD92

What have you installed that uses these?

Dave

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rkaufmann87

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May 27, 2010 6:50 PM in response to CRD92

Are you sure it's not a .csv file, if so that would be a spreadsheet format that Excel can read. Does that sound possible?

I also Googled CVS file and found this:

http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/cvs

Regards,

Roger

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etresoft

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May 27, 2010 6:50 PM in response to CRD92

Those are configuration files for the CVS configuration management program. It is something that normally only a programmer would use. You must have downloaded and expanded some open-source software tool. If you don't know what CVS is, you don't need these files and you can safely delete them.

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CRD92 Author

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May 28, 2010 3:44 PM in response to CRD92

Thank you, etresoft, that is what I needed to hear. I knew it had something to do with programming, but I did not know whether I could hurt some root hardware.

Again, thanks for the help

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