-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i'm aware from the docs that the standard practice is to create an empty > new CVS repository, and populate it from there with "cvs import". That is one of many methods that people use to populate repositories. Creating an empty repository and just adding new directories and files into it are another. Creating a cvs repository out of an RCS tree is yet another method. > however, is it feasible (or just plain bad practice) to create a new > repository over top of an existing directory structure? Well, it is a good idea if the existing directory structure only contains RCS ,v files. > that is, if i have a directory "dir", under which i have > several project subdirs, "s1", "s2" and so on, i can apparently > do something like > > $ cvs -d dir init > > which will create the CVSROOT directory inside "dir", at which point > i can checkout any of s1, s2 and so on. This assumes that the s1, s2 and so on are directories populated with RCS ,v either obtained from some other cvs repository or from an RCS repository. You may wish to look at the rcs-to-cvs.sh script in the contrib directory of the cvs distribution... Failing that, I suppose you could use the rcs 'ci' command to transform your existing sources in the s1 s2 and so on into RCS ,v files. However, you might find it easier to use other tools in that case to populate a repository some place else with those files. > so, technically, it seems doable, but is it just considered bad form > to drop a repository over an existing directory hierarchy? It is possible. > and, second, from all i've read, it seems i can only use "cvs import" to > import what's in my current working directory, is that right? Using 'cvs import' is one way to take your current directory and put it into cvs. There are other methods as well. Another method might go something like this: If you are in /some/place/mydir and want everything in 'mydir' to be a part of the mydir project, you could do something like this: cd /some/place cvs -d /path/to/my/repository init cvs -d /path/to/my/repository co . find mydir -type f > files find mydir -prune CVS -o -type d | xargs cvs add xargs cvs add < files > the options list for "import" doesn't appear to accept arguments of > what to import, and only takes the contents of the current working > directory, correct? The cvs import module vendor tag command will create a 'module' relative to your CVSROOT that has the contents of all of the directories and files under your current working directory. Enjoy! -- Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/wYWE3x41pRYZE/gRAhrJAKCI5f+zOkxYnwtrAl9TRblFPLHOfQCfThwW uZu3du5ETyUnYQB2wEPlOsc= =kbrW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs