tony hoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/info-cvs/?start=21187
> Brendan Simon wrote:
> > How can one view the repository to see the available modules ?
> > I tried "cvs co -c" and "cvs co -s" but nothing was returned. I
> > haven't got a modules file in the CVSROOT directory. Must I have
one
> > of these ? Surely there must be a way to browse the repository so
that
> > a nice UI can be used to select a module and perform a checkout and
> > other cvs functions.
>
> Probably not an ideal solution, but I cheated. I put everything in
subdirectories
> in the module 'Develop'. CVS allows you to checkout individual
subdirectories, and it
> keeps the boss happy...
How ? I assume someone told him that the module "Develop" exists and
that he must checkout that module. This means that every module will
be checked out which could take a very long time and take up a lot of
disk space. Is this what you meant ?
A CVS command to get a list of files from a particular directory is
really needed. Using the modules file is not very elegant and has to
be setup by a human which could be wrong or out of sync with the
repository. An automatic generation of a modules file could be done I
guess but there would still be synchronisation problems unless it is
executed whenever a directory/module is added or removed (does removal
exist ?) to the repository.
Brendan.
