[TriLUG] cvs CVSROOT/modules

[William Sutton]

Thank you for the examples!  By "searchable", I mean "TortoiseCVS 
can find the modules without my having to install ViewCVS on the server 
since I don't have r00t privileges at $WORK" :)

(yes, we use Windows for workstations, not my choice)

William

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tom Bryan wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 09:43 am, William Sutton wrote:
> > Has anyone here explicitly set up a modules listing in the CVSROOT/modules
> > file?  
> 
> Here's one.  The project had a ton of directories for previous prototypes. New 
> developers really just needed a few folders.  So, we configured the src 
> module for developers to grab only the necessary folders.  The second set of 
> modules was for me.  In general, my files are lower case and my directories 
> are initial capital with as few collisions on the first letter of a directory 
> as possible.  It makes tab completion to deep directories very fast (one 
> letter and a tab per level).  :-)
> 
> # Current project documentation and active projects
> src -a docs proposals projects
> ecoaccess -a docs proposals projects
> # Module alias for Tom, who likes singe letter tab completion on directory  
> # names
> Docs docs
> InitialProposals proposals
> Projects projects
> SourceForge &Docs &InitialProposals &Projects &CVSROOT
> 
> 
> > and that one can configure cvs using it to make the various cvs modules
> > searchable, but examples seem to be absent.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "searchable."
> 
> By the way, I really liked http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/.  I bought a copy of 
> the second edition.  Good stuff.
> 
> ---Tom
> 
>