RE: Checking out a subset of a CVS module

2001-04-18 Thread Michael Thiele
-- on April 18, 2001 3:18 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we check out just one script that may be contained in a directory that is several directories deep in a module? Try it :-) cvs co module/subdir/subsubdir/filename Regards Michael ___

RE: Checking out a subset of a CVS module

2001-04-18 Thread Chuck . Irvine
I've heard this question many times and wonder if it is motivated by an incorrect notion of the function of CVS checkout. Checkout gets a "snapshot" of a module and places it in a local directory. It doesn't reserve editing ability with regard to checked out files to just one person. In other

Re: Checking out a subset of a CVS module

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Biechele
A reason could be to waste less disk space. Lets assume you have a large module (which started off small, but grew over time). And lets say 10 people are working on this module. So 10 times lets say 50 MB is already 500MB just for the sources of this module. There are two solutions I think:

Re: Checking out a subset of a CVS module

2001-04-18 Thread Larry Jones
Peter Biechele writes: - How can you split up a module in two or more modules, maybe keeping the history or even the tags ??? By defining a new module that's a subset of an existing module. For example, you could have the following in your CVSROOT/modules file: originalmymod