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Re: Can't figure out CVS



On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:53:51PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
| On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:35:36PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:45:40PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
[...]
| > | I'm wasting too much time online via dialup trying to figure out where
| > | the "modules" are, or how to identify them.
| > 
| > Often the project has a single module named the same as the project.
| > You can confirm this using the "Browse CVS Repository" link on the
| > instrution page.
| 
| Ha, I missed this. I went to "check it out" from the rhide home page;
| this took me into a directory tree, and it seemed to me that I was
| browsing said tree. (Hang on, I'm a pigeon, not a giraffe...) It
| didn't make it obvious that module names were directory names.

How did you know it was a directory?  CVSWeb gives you an HTML page to
look at :-).  The point is just that _how_ the data is stored in the
backend can be different from the specific way it is viewed from the
frontend.  Yes, cvs uses directories to store modules, but the top
directory (the "cvs root") must have the directory CVSROOT in it and
that contains several files related to the repository.  If you have
the cvs root on a local disk you can muck with the repository
directly, but it isn't a good idea unless you have a backup and/or you
know something about how cvs stores the data.

HTH,
-D

-- 
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet
and a light unto my path.
        Psalms 119:105
 
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