Re: modules aliases

[Larry Jones]

Rosa Macias writes:
> 
> Can anyone confirm that the sentence in bold is really true?
> 
> mname -a aliases...
> 
> "This represents the simplest way of defining a module mname. The `-a' flags
> the definition as a simple alias: cvs will treat any use of mname (as a
> command argument) as if the list of names aliases had been specified
> instead."

No, that overstates the case.  The reality is that CVS commands *that
take the name of files/directories in the repository* will treat mname
as if the aliases had been specified instead.  The catch is that most
CVS commands take *local* files/directories rather than repository
files/directories.  Basically, it works for checkout and the various r*
commands (rdiff, rlog, etc.).

-Larry Jones

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