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Exporting a Module
by Jeff Hunter, Sr. Database Administrator
The cvs export command can be used when you need to get a copy of the codebase to someone, but without the CVS administrative directories.
The syntax is:
cvs export -r tag moduleIn many cases, I will need to export the codebase of a module at the HEAD of the main trunk. Simply use the HEAD tag to perform this. The following example, will export the latest codebase for the TestCvsModule module:
cvs export -r HEAD TestCvsModule
NOTE:
There is a bug in several versions of CVS that will prevent the developer from
exporting a module if your CVSROOT variable has a trailing slash.
It will give you this error:
% echo $CVSROOT /var/lib/cvsroot/ % cvs export -r HEAD module cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into working directoryTo fix this, simply remove the trailing slash from your CVSROOT environment variable and issue the export command again: % export CVSROOT=/var/lib/cvsroot % echo $CVSROOT /var/lib/cvsroot % cvs export -r HEAD TestCvsModule |
NOTE:
There are versions of CVS that have reported, what I think is a bug,
that when someone has exported a HEAD revision of a cvs module:
cvs export -r HEAD <module>, that deleted files (files in the Attic) are also exported. I have tried this on several versions of CVS on different operating systems (Solaris, Linux, Windows, HP-UX) and have not seen this. |