CVS Checkout to a directory

Question

How do i check out a specific directory from CVS and omit the tree leading up to that directory?

EX.

Id like to checkout to this directory C:/WebHost/MyWebApp/www

My CVS Project directory structure is MyWebApp/Trunk/www

How do i omit the Trunk and MyWebApp directories?

Street

Answer 1

Use cvs -d/cvsroot checkout -d directory project/path/directory. The first -d can be omitted if you set the root with the environment. This is called "shortening the path" and can be avoided with the -N option to checkout.

Clementinaclementine

eg: cvs -d [email protected]:/cvs co -d ls src/bin/ls to checkout the ls remote repository directory to ls local repository directory (by creating it, if does not exist already) – Saros

and by exporting the CVSROOT environment variable (as typeset -x [email protected]:/cvs) the command can be shortened to just cvs co -d ls src/bin/ls – Saros

Answer 2

CVS is 'tied' to the repository by files in the .CVS folder. Each folder is 'tied' individually.

This means you can just check out the full thing (or if you already have the full thing), then cut/paste the www directory out to somewhere else, and it will remain linked to the correct CVS location.

Elflock

Answer 3

[Oops, deleted some wrong crap.] yeah, co -d www is what you want.

You can also set up modules in the repository, which will let you check out just www as if it were a top-level directory, but you have to do it for every such directory.

Leakey

I am getting the MyWebApp/Trank directories. You are saying the solution is to make that a module and otherwise this is ot possible? – Street