On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:09:13 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've browsed both the Cederqvist and the the Fogel book, and I didn't
>see anything related to this, although I don't really know what "it"
>would be called, so I may have looked in the wrong place.
>
>Is there a way to:
>1. "Browse" the repository, i.e. the equivalent of doing a "ls" of a
>source directory? Sometimes we don't remember the exact spelling,
>etc. of a file, and we don't really want to have to checkout the
>entire module just to get it.
You can only do this by
- Browsing the filesystem the repository is on (by logging into the
machine it is on)
- Running cvsweb or viewcvs on a web server on the machine the
repository is on. This lets anyone easily browse the history, perform
diffs, download old versions of files and so on. It is quite a rich
(if read-only) interface to viewing the repository.
>2. Checkout a wildcarded set of files? I know the shell normally
>handles this, but this is another instance where we want to get out
>five or six files that all start with the same string, etc., and we
>currently have to get each of the individually, which is time-
>consuming.
No can do, as far as I know.
Normally people using CVS check out the entiremodule. You only have
to do this once, and I can't really see a good reason for not wanting
to. If the module is too large, you can break it up into multiple
modules, or use module aliases.
Francis
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