RE: Help! Branch/attic mess

[Tom Copeland]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:43, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > OK, but how does one get a project started without using import?  The
> > Cederqvist manual gives no other way to start a project besides using
> > import (ch. 3).  And going over all the commands listed with cvs
> > --help-commands, I don't see any other command to start a project
> > with.
> That's because there is no single command to do that. You need to add an
> entry to the CVSROOT/modules file, then create the corresponding directory
> in the repository and check it out. From there, you use 'cvs add'.

Hm, that's interesting.  I've always started projects in CVS by doing an
import of some existing directory tree... just seems to remove some of
the tediousness of lots of cvs adds of directories...

Tom