if U go 2 www.google.com and type in: cvs -d ext You will get issues relating to problems (hopefully historical) related to cvs remote imports Brian S. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > can someone help me parse the following (working) command line option to > import files into my cvs tree: > > cvs -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/lgh import LG-HOWTO > vendor start > > here's what i think is going on. > > -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/lgh > > -d means to access a remote cvs. i'm not sure what :ext: means (indicates a > machine that not localhost? seems redundant), but this says to access the > machine cvs.LG-HOWTO.sourceforge.net as user peiter, and i want to access the > directory /cvsroot/lgh/ on that machine. similar syntax as ssh/scp. > however, see below. > > import LG-HOWTO means to take whatever is in pwd and put it the > machine:directory/LG-HOWTO, where machine:directory/ is indicated with the -d > switch, indicated above. this short circuits the "checkout process". > > i have no idea what vendor means. > > is "start" really necessary? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > next. i screwed up my first time, and thought that the "LG-HOWTO" in > "import LG-HOWTO" was the name of the file to import, rather than the name of > the directory to import to. hence, i now have the following the directories > in my cvs directory: > > CVSROOT/ > LG-HOWTO/ > LG-HOWTO.txt/ <-- mistake! i'd like to get rid of it. > > see http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lgh/. > > it seemed obvious at the time. i wanted to import the file LG-HOWTO.txt. i > didn't realize that import referred to the directory to import to, not the > file i wanted to import. > > so now i want to delete LG-HOWTO.txt/. i've managed to delete its contents, > by going into the directory LG-HOWTO.txt/, removing a file, and then > > cvs remove file > cvs commit > > but can't figure out how to delete the directory LG-HOWTO.txt itself. > > thanks, > pete > > -- > "The following addresses had permanent fatal errors..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Mailer Daemon www.dirac.org/p -- Brian Sroufek Modern Software Design, Inc. http://www.msdesigninc.com --Implementing Expert Systems Solutions since 1994
