Cvs Checkout Attic Files

Use checkout to create a new sandbox and use update to modify an existing sandbox.

Cvs checkout attic files.

This will create a sub directory module and check out the files from the repository into the sub directory for you to work on. Viewing the files revealed that they re in dead state. File is in the attic. H display usage information about the specified cvs command but do not actually execute the command.

Someone has cvs remove d the files. I ve moved the files out of the attic folder but when i checkout the folder the cvs gui doesn t show any files under the folder. But in case you want to know the rule is that the rcs file is stored in the attic if and only if the head revision on the trunk has state dead. To retrieve a tagged file or set of files use the r tagname option to cvs checkout or cvs update.

Global options the available cvs options that are given to the left of cvs command are. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command. Cvs checkout or cvs co to make a local copy of a module s files from the repository execute cvs checkout modulewhere module is an entry in your modules file see below. A dead state means that file has been.

If you don t specify a command name cvs h displays a summary of all the commands available q causes the command to be really quiet. Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.