[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 2005-05-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have the following problem: > > I would like to checkout a CVS module without downloading its files - > > just the module's CVS description (the "CVS" directory). > > The problem is that the module is very big (linux sources) and I need > > only few files to build packages. > > OK, I solved it. > I created manually directory CVS with files: Root, Entries, > Entries.Static and Repository, and now I can download only files I want. >
This sounds like a very painful way to go. > The invocation: "cvs -d <server> co SOURCES/<package>" did not work > - that is why I had to create CVS dir manually. > What do you mean '"cvs -d <server> co SOURCES/<package>" did not work'? Normally, "cvs -d <server> co CVSRootRelitivePathToFile/filename" does what you want, and quite easily. Can you please post a cut and paste from any error messages you got to the list, so we might get a better idea what went wrong? > In case there is an easier way I would appreciate any comments and > suggestions for the sake of a general knowledge about CVS. > > Sorry, if the problem was the trivial one. > > -- > J.tar -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
