Re: directions for cvs?

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> I'm having a bit of trouble with cvs and thought someone might already
> know the answer to this.  If I use `cvs checkout tn5250` I get all sorts
> of errors telling me that I need to move files out of the way.  Of
> course, I can clear the directory first and get all new files, but that
> is extra work and unnecessary bandwidth.
> 
> I read in man cvs that I can cd into my tn5250 directory and do `cvs
> update tn5250` and only get changed files.  Sounds like exactly what
> I wanted.  But I get an error:
> 
> $ cvs update tn5250
> cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or
> directory
> cvs [update aborted]: no repository
> 
> Any suggestions?

You have to do the 'cvs checkout tn5250' and check out the full module first,
then 'cvs update' will work.  The check-out process not only downloads all
the files in the modules, but it also indexes them with information that it
uses to determine whether a file in CVS has been updated.  There *is* a
method for converting a set of files into a repository, but I can't remember
how (I think I saw the instructuions for this on the mozilla.org website).

In any case, I wouldn't bother.  Just check out the tn5250 sources the first
time.

-Jay
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