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Re: checkout ontop of otherwise installed source
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Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: checkout ontop of otherwise installed source |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:26:13 -0500 (EST) |
Brian Hughes writes:
>
> If I have installed something from a tarball (it's a web app, a bunch of
> php mostly) and then I do a checkout ontop of it, will CVS work right?
Maybe. Sort-of. Sometimes. In other words, no.
> The context is I am envisaging distributing something as a tarball, and
> then later those who like the app and wanted to develop it would get a CVS
> account and do the checkout into the same directory tree as they created
> with the tarball.
If you're going to allow anonymous CVS access, the best way to do this
is to have the tarball be an anonymously checked-out working directory
complete with metadata in CVS subdirectories. If you're not going to
allow anonymous access, then it's probably best to make interested
people do a full checkout in a new directory rather than trying to
overlay an existing directory of unknown provenance.
-Larry Jones
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