RE: CVS - CO single file w/o dirpath

[Dieter Shirley]

Try '-d.'

As in:

cvs checkout -r REL-2-3-0-d3 -d. src/archgen/README

Cheers,
-dete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lamar Seifuddin [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:55 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: CVS - CO single file w/o dirpath
> 
> 
> All,
> 
>  I want to check out one file at least five directories deep,.
> 
>  I know I have to specify the full path to the file in the
>  checkout command.
> 
>  But, I just want the file, not the directory path.
> 
>  what is the format of the checkout command?
> 
>  The documentation on using the -N with the -d
>  is unclear to me.
> 
>  This is what I did:
> 
>  cvs checkout -r REL-2-3-0-d3 -dN src/archgen/README
> 
>  This created a N directory with the file README
> 
>  ?????   duh
> 
>  probably real simple........I just can't see it.
> 
> forgive me in advance.
> :-)
> 
> thank you,
> 
> Lamar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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