Larry Jones wrote:
> Bram Moolenaar writes:
> >
> > testscript:
> > cvs checkout testscript
> >
> > This doesn't work, because this is in a subdirectory of the module and
> > the actual name is something like "module/foo/bar/testscript". This
> > would work:
> >
> > cd ../../..
> > cvs checkout module/foo/bar/testscript
> >
> > However, this requires knowning the name of the module and directories.
> > Isn't there way to checkout "testscript" without having to specify the
> > whole path in the Makefile (so that maintenance is easier)?
> > After all, CVS/Repository contains exactly the name I need to use. I
> > suppose it's used for the update command, so why can't checkout use it?
>
> Because checkout is the wrong subcommand. The subcommand you want,
> surprisingly enough, is update! Just do:
>
> cvs update testscript
This indeed works. Thanks for the hint, I wouldn't have guessed this.
However, if I change the question to checkout "testdir", which obviously
is a directory instead of a file, this doesn't seem to work. Perhaps
you have a solution for that as well? "cvs update testdir" doesn't do
anything, not even an error message.
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