Re: Selecting files for checkou with regex

[Mark D. Baushke]

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address@hidden writes:

> Mark D. Baushke <address@hidden> wrote:
> [snip]
> : For cvs 1.12.x (or CVSNT), you may find the 'ls' and 'rls' commands of
> : interest.
> [snip]
> : Another method available to all versions of cvs is the rlog command with
> : the -R switch to print just the name of the RCS file.
> 
> Those might do it.  The examples are very helpful.
> 
> : There may be other ways to do what you wish. However, it may also
> : be a good idea to segregate the files you wish to checkout to a
> : particular directory rather than mixing them with files you would
> : not wish to checkout.
> 
> Unfortunately, the project's structure is too established to change. Maybe 
> if the CVS server can have symbolic links, then all those files could have 
> symbolic links in one directory.

CVS does not support symbolic links.

CVSNT may support symbolic links on some platforms.
(see http://www.cvsnt.org/)

I believe that Meta-CVS does support symbolic links. kaz should be able
to tell you more (see http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mcvs.html).

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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