Hi David:
I've gone through most online manuals.. including the
verbose one you suggested below.. but despite reading all these *fine* manuals,
I am still getting nowhere.
I installed CVS, set my env variable, did the
init, then what? The manual said: (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/blandy.html)
Checking out a working directory
CVS doesn't work on ordinary
directory trees; you need to work within a directory that CVS created for you.
Just as you check out a book from a library before taking it home to read it,
you use the cvs checkout command to get a directory tree from CVS before working
on it. For example, suppose you are working on a project named httpc, a trivial
HTTP client:
$ cd
$ cvs checkout httpc
cvs checkout:
Updating httpc
but this is exactly where I'm stumped at!! Here's my result following the
instruction:
cwu@pepsi{/users/home11/cwu}: cvs
checkout extra
cvs checkout: cannot find module `extra' - ignored
cwu@pepsi{/users/home11/cwu}: cvs checkout /users/home11/cwu/extra
cvs checkout: cannot find module `/users/home11/cwu/extra' - ignored
cvs checkout: cannot find module `extra' - ignored
cwu@pepsi{/users/home11/cwu}: cvs checkout /users/home11/cwu/extra
cvs checkout: cannot find module `/users/home11/cwu/extra' - ignored
It's really not that I don't want to RTFM before I ask,
but I have to say CVS can definitely use
some better step-by-step guide - I'm not a unix sys admin
and I'm trying to convince my group
that CVS is a much better tool than those commercial ones
like clearcase, vss, and heaven
forbid, interwoven, and this user-unfriendliness is really
pulling my leg here
Thanks again
Charlie
