Re: how to checkout a specific file from a Makefile

[Bram Moolenaar]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Bram Moolenaar writes:
> > 
> >     testscript:
> >             cvs checkout testscript
> > 
> > This doesn't work, because this is in a subdirectory of the module and
> > the actual name is something like "module/foo/bar/testscript".  This
> > would work:
> > 
> >     cd ../../..
> >     cvs checkout module/foo/bar/testscript
> > 
> > However, this requires knowning the name of the module and directories.
> > Isn't there way to checkout "testscript" without having to specify the
> > whole path in the Makefile (so that maintenance is easier)?
> > After all, CVS/Repository contains exactly the name I need to use.  I
> > suppose it's used for the update command, so why can't checkout use it?
> 
> Because checkout is the wrong subcommand.  The subcommand you want,
> surprisingly enough, is update!  Just do:
> 
>       cvs update testscript

This indeed works.  Thanks for the hint, I wouldn't have guessed this.

However, if I change the question to checkout "testdir", which obviously
is a directory instead of a file, this doesn't seem to work.  Perhaps
you have a solution for that as well?  "cvs update testdir" doesn't do
anything, not even an error message.

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