I\'m not quite sure how this happened, but somehow a completely empty hierarchy of directories has ended up in my repository:
com/ com/companyname/ com/compa
AFAIK the CVS protocol does not allow to remove directories. You should go to the server console and remove them from the real physical repository.
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/cvsmanual/Removingdirectories.html
You don't remove the directory itself; there is no way to do that.