Re: checking out a module with files from other modules

[Mark E. Hamilton]

eranlevi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the replay.
> I did something a little bit different. Basically, I need some files from
> dir2/other1_dir to be under a certain directory that is under dir1 and some
> other files from dirs/other2_dir to be under another directory that is under
> dir1.
> What I did was:
> test1  -d dir1/another1_dir  dir2/other1_dir  file1  file2...
> test2  -d dir1/another2_dir  dir2/other2_dir  file3  file4...
> test  test  &test1  &test2
>
> The checkout output looked very good but I couldn't find files 1-4 under
> dir1 :-(
>
> What I did wrong?

The problem is that the 'test' module is an ampersand module, so it 
created a sub-directory named 'test' which contains

test/dir1/another1_dir/file1
test/dir1/another1_dir/file2
test/dir1/another2_dir/file3
test/dir1/another2_dir/file4
...

See this; http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs_18.html#SEC162

If you want the top-level module in your working directory to be 'dir1' 
then you should use an alias module instead, like this:

test -a dir1  test1  test2

Note two things:

   1. If an alias module has the same name as the top-level directory 
you'll get an infinite loop error, so the module name must be different 
than the directory name; that's why my example uses 'test' and 'dir1'. 
(I don't know if this is a bug or expected behavior; perhaps the CVS 
gurus on the list can answer that.)

   2. You must be sure to name your main directory (dir1) in the alias 
module first. If you don't the dir1/CVS/Repository file will be set to 
dir2 rather than dir1, and then you will not be able to check out dir1 
itself.

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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
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