Why don't you create a subdirectory that you checkout
everything into.
Then from your home directory create symlinks into the subdirectory.
for instance:
cd
mkdir .real_home
cd .real_home
cvs co -d glew glew-home
cd ..
ln -s .real_home/glew-home/.cshrc .cschrc
I would actually write a script that goes through and creates
all the symlinks correctly.
donald
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:03:06PM -0700, Glew, Andy wrote:
> This is probably a dumb question, but:
>
> I want to use CVS to version control files in my home
> directory, such as ~glew-home/.cshrc.
>
> I have created a module, $CVSROOT/glew-home, and populated
> it with my historic RCS files.
>
> I can check out this module as follows
>
> cvs co -d HOME glew-home
>
> However, how do I check it out over/on-top-of
> my existing home directory? Since I do not have
> root, I cannot do
>
> cd ~glew/..
> rm -rf glew
> cvs co -d glew glew-home
>
> And the following attempt to accomplish it in place
> gives an error
>
> cd ~/glew
> cvs co -d . glew-home
>
>
