Re: Checkout files to the same working directory

[Eric Siegerman]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:39:14PM -0400, Martyn Klassen wrote:
> I'd like to be able to checkout files from different locations in the 
> repository to the same working directory. [...]
> I would have thought it would 
> be relatively easy for the information about file location to be stored in 
> the CVS/ directory inside the working directory. Is this possible?

Not with CVS as it currently exists.  If you look more closely at
the CVS subdirectory, you'll see why:  CVS/Repository says which
directory in the repo the files came from, and it can't point to
two directories at once.

You can easily check out a *subdirectory* from a different place
in the repo, but you can't mix files from two repo directories in
one sandbox directory.

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