Question

I have the following project structure:

~/projects:
dir1/  dir2/ dir3/ .... dirn/

dir1/:
dir11/  dir12/  ... dir1n/ 

I want to export all directories dir2/ to dirn/ from within ~/projects and only dir11/ from within dir1/. How do I do this? I am using cvs.

Thanks,
Sriram.

Answer 1

CVS doesn’t have a method (that I can find or have ever heard of) to exclude certain modules on export (or checkout).

You’ll have to do it in two steps

cvs ex -r HEAD dir1/dir11 dir2 dir3 ... dirn
mv dir1/dir11 . ; rmdir dir1

Not sure if the mv and rmdir commands are what you want to do, but the gist of it is, exporting dir1/dir11 is going to create a dir1/ folder, which I’m assuming you don’t want.

Otherwise, export dir11/ in a separate command with the -d option, something like:

cvs ex -r HEAD dir2 dir3 ... dirn
cvs ex -r HEAD -d dir11 dir1/dir11