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I trying to recover some old source code (plain text) from a bunch of files that used to be managed with CVS. I have a directory containing all of the source code files in CVS’s *,v file format. This looks mostly like the original files, but there are quite a bit of CVS specific header and revision information in there.
Is there a simply way to strip out all the CVS stuff and just keep the latest revision of the file?
Yes, install a CVS client, set environment variable CVSROOT to point to the root of your repository, and type
cvs checkout dirwherediris a top level directory in your repository.If for some reason you only have individual
,vfiles, they are inrcsformat, so if thercsprogram is installed it should be able to get the tip revision out of any,vfile.