Re: [Savannah-hackers] How to create projects CVS submodules

[NOULARD Eric]

Le mardi 04 janvier 2005 à 22:31 +0100, Sylvain Beucler a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:42:28PM +0100, NOULARD Eric wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am (one of) project admin of the TSP non gnu project
> > (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tsp)
> > we want to create several CVS submodules which
> > should stay side-by-side with the actual
> > 'tsp' one.
> > 
> > now we have:
> > CVS_REPODIR/CVSROOT
> > CVS_REPODIR/tsp
> > 
> > we may (still thinking about the names)
> > 
> > CVS_REPODIR/CVSROOT
> > CVS_REPODIR/tsp
> > CVS_REPODIR/tsp_docs
> > CVS_REPODIR/tsp_externals
> > 
> > Then we may easily checkout any part of the TSP.
> > Mostly documentation/source/externals for now.
> > 
> > This 'split' would make the CVS tree more
> > modular and 'lighter' to use.
> > 
> > I know we may use CVSROOT/modules for 'faking' 
> > that behavior, but then I won't be able
> > to avoid checking out the whole tree.
> > 
> > In fact the operation we want to do may be viewed
> > as a CVS tree 'refactoring' in order to modularize 
> > a CVS tree which is not.
> > 
> > What do you suggest us?
> > What is possible and what is not?
> 
> If all you want to do create new top-level directories like this:
> 
> > CVS_REPODIR/CVSROOT
> > CVS_REPODIR/tsp
> > CVS_REPODIR/tsp_docs
> > CVS_REPODIR/tsp_externals
> 
> Then it is pretty simple.
> 
> One way is to checkout the entire tree using
> mkdir wd
> cd wd
> cvs -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/tsp co .
> mkdir tsp_docs tsp_externals
> cvs add tsp_docs tsp_externals
> 
> and then populate the two new directories. Once this is done, you can
> checkout each module independently.
> 
> Another way is to use the 'cvs import' command, and specify an
> appropriate module name (see the doc by typing 'info cvs', "Creating a
> directory tree from a number of files").
> 
> Is this what you wanted?

Sounds good.
I didn't thought to checkout ".",
nor cvs importing new modules.

Thank you to refresh my 'too poor' cvs experience.

Thanks again.

> 
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NOULARD Eric <address@hidden>