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Re: Some advice: using CVS to do config management
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Donald Sharp |
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Re: Some advice: using CVS to do config management |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:21:50 -0500 |
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:18:33PM +0100, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use CVS to do some version control on the configuration
> files on some machines that I have. I am trying to set up a pserver
> based CVS server that the machines would check their config files into
> via cron on a regular basis.
>
> I need to know the best way of checking in the config files to CVS so
> that no human intervention is involved with the day to day running of
> the server. Basically an entire directory of files needs to be checked
> into CVS without any special CVS action needing to be performed if a new
> file is added or created to any of the directories under version
> control.
psuedo code of course. But I think you'll get the idea:
foreach file( in directory )
{
if( cvs status == unknown )
cvs add <blah>
cvs commit -m "I'm cool like that" <blah>
}
donald
>
> The manual has confused me a bit on which function I should be using to
> do this - Is "cvs import" what I looking for?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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