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Re: NEWBIE question: checkout, sub-modules
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: NEWBIE question: checkout, sub-modules |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:01:02 -0400 (EDT) |
Luna, Glen writes:
>
> I used the following version of the checkout command
> cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/home/cvs -d fruits
> vegetables/grapes vegetables/oranges
>
> I had hoped that this would result in
> fruits/grapes
> fruits/oranges
> Instead the result is
> fruits/vegetables/grapes
> fruits/vegetables/oranges
>
> There's got to be a way to have checkout place a copy of grapes and oranges
> under fruits without the
> pesky vegetables getting in the way.
I think it will work the way you want if you only checkout one thing at
a time. CVS isn't smart enough to figure out how much it can shorten
names without getting into trouble when you checkout more than one thing
at a time, so it just doesn't shorten them at all.
-Larry Jones
Ha! Wild zontars couldn't drag that information out of me! Do your worst!
-- Calvin