Cvs Checkout Attic Files

Cvs checkout or cvs co to make a local copy of a module s files from the repository execute cvs checkout modulewhere module is an entry in your modules file see below.

Cvs checkout attic files.

Use checkout to create a new sandbox and use update to modify an existing sandbox. But in case you want to know the rule is that the rcs file is stored in the attic if and only if the head revision on the trunk has state dead. If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find. Viewing the files revealed that they re in dead state.

File is in the attic. The command will only generate output for serious problems. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command. A dead state means that file has been.

Global options the available cvs options that are given to the left of cvs command are. If you don t specify a command name cvs h displays a summary of all the commands available q causes the command to be really quiet. To retrieve a tagged file or set of files use the r tagname option to cvs checkout or cvs update. Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to.

H display usage information about the specified cvs command but do not actually execute the command. Try a command like.