Re: Managing a project in multiple directories?

[Ted Stern]

On  3 Jan 2006 at 11:05 UTC-0800, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The project in question does not have a single root directory. Although
> the bulk of the files live in /var/www (and *only* project-related
> files are in there), some critical ones live in /etc and other
> directories (and in most cases there are non-project files in these
> directories). Effectively, the project consists of the entire
> filesystem, with huge chunks (/tmp, /dev, /bin, ...) ignored.
>
> The question is, how to convince CVS to treat this project as a single
> unit: eg when checking out, I don't want to say 'cvs checkout proj' and
> have the entire project filesystem dumped into ./proj; rather the
> checked out files should be created with their correct absolute paths.
>
> I'm not entirely sure that CVS is even the right tool for this job...
>
> Any suggestions?

Does the CVSROOT/modules file not work for you?

You probably want a module alias like this:

     proj -a var/www \
             etc/other \
             ...

The only thing you need to remember is to 'cd /' before checking out
proj.  CVS doesn't handle absolute paths.

The philosophical question, I can't deal with.  Maybe you want to try
subversion?

Ted
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