Re: CVS control dirs w/o checkout?

[Tomki]

Ok, I'll try to restate with more specifics.
I have a 2.5 gigabyte directory tree that I want to import into CVS.  I'm 
on a relatively slow link that isn't perfectly reliable, so I'm having to 
transfer the directories here by FTP.
I want to place the original directory tree under CVS control, but the only 
way I know to do that right now is to check the entire tree back out from 
CVS control, and transfer the entire thing back, either by FTP or CVS.
Is there a better way?  (built into CVS itself..  I can write an 
independent program that helps solve this problem, but it'll be a bandaid)

--Tomki

At 09:32 6/15/2001 -0400, Derek R. Price wrote:
> Tomki wrote:
>
> > Hello, I have a huge repository that I need to check into CVS.
> > My CVS server's connection to the internet is not fast, and the
> > international connection dependability is not high.
> > So I am using FTP to retrieve the tree to be checked in.  Is there a way to
> > place the original dirs under CVS control without actually checking out the
> > entire repository to the host website?
>
> Your question was unclear to me.  Perhaps `cvs import'?  `cvs add'?  `cvs co
> -l .'?
>
> Derek
>
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