Cvs Checkout Attic Files

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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. If you have access to the repository you can find all files in the attic with find. Use checkout to create a new sandbox and use update to modify an existing sandbox. File is in the attic.

Cvs keeps track of this and looks in the attic when it needs to. This will create a sub directory module and check out the files from the repository into the sub directory for you to work on. Try a command like. 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.

A dead state means that file has been. Global options the available cvs options that are given to the left of cvs command are. To retrieve a tagged file or set of files use the r tagname option to cvs checkout or cvs update. Viewing the files revealed that they re in dead state.

Someone has cvs remove d the files. Type d name attic exec ls 1 you can also list the files with the cvs log command.