where are cvs files checkout out to?

ShaqDiesel · 01-26-2009, 02:19 PM

dir is a directory under my $CVSROOT. ls $CVSROOT

CVSROOT
dir

In dir I have a file I want to checkout.

Running "cvs checkout dir" should checkout dir into the directory I ran the command in. I see a dir. But, when I go into dir I don't see the file I wanted to checkout. I see a directory named CVS with three files: Entries, Repository, and Root.

What happened to the file in my working copy of the "dir" directory?

John VV · 01-26-2009, 03:11 PM

cvs and svn put the file in the folder you ran the terminal from
ex.

Code:

[??@?? ~]$ svn co https://celestia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/celestia celestia
would be a folder called celestia in ~( home) 
 [??@?? ~]$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cimg.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cimg co CImg
would be a folder called CImg in ~( home) 
[??@?? /usr/src]$ svn co https://celestia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/celestia celestia
would be /usr/src/celestia 
[??@?? /usr/src]$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cimg.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cimg co CImg
would be /usr/src/CImg

you might want to read the " man " pages

Code:

man cvs
 --
man svn

ShaqDiesel · 01-26-2009, 03:19 PM

That's what I thought and is consistent with the results I got. BUT, where is the file in "dir"?

John VV · 01-26-2009, 05:19 PM

What are you trying to checkout of cvs??
post the code.