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Re: CVS How to NOT checkout certain files
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Richard J. Duncan |
Subject: |
Re: CVS How to NOT checkout certain files |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:09:39 -0500 (CDT) |
> > Is there a way to specify files not to be checked out? In other words, is
> > there a way to tell the "cvs co" command that I do not want to checkout
> > certain files?
>
> Not directly, though you could ask it to check out a file at a time. You can
> do some of that kind of thing with the modules file, but I find it's not
> usually worth the trouble. It's usually easier to simply organize your
> directories & modules in such a way that any module you check out is likely
> to be usuable as a whole.
Look at the cvsignore file. That is how cvs knows not to worry about
*.o object files, *~ emacs save files and the like.
-Rick