How to replicate a direcoty from one location to another without cvs-check-in

[coolpaddy]

Hi,

Is there any way in CVS to replicate already existing dir at some other
location in same cvs repository?

Example:

Say I have following dir already checked-in into CVS:

/cvsroot/coolpaddy/source/dir_to_be_copied

Now I want to have dir_to_be_copied at /cvsroot/coolpaddy level too. I dont
want to checkin again dir_to_be_copied as it is too big in size(around 10GB)
and would take a lot time.

Is there any alternate way to achieve the same?

Thanks!
~paddy

[Shane Turner]

Paddy,

Could you give us a little more information about the situation and what
it is you're trying to accomplish so we can give a appropriate suggestion?

Shane

Post by coolpaddy
Hi,
Is there any way in CVS to replicate already existing dir at some other
location in same cvs repository?
/cvsroot/coolpaddy/source/dir_to_be_copied
Now I want to have dir_to_be_copied at /cvsroot/coolpaddy level too. I dont
want to checkin again dir_to_be_copied as it is too big in size(around 10GB)
and would take a lot time.
Is there any alternate way to achieve the same?
Thanks!
~paddy

[Bulgrien, Kevin]

-----Original Message-----

g] On Behalf Of coolpaddy

Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:08 AM
Subject: How to replicate a direcoty from one location to
another without cvs-check-in
Hi,
Is there any way in CVS to replicate already existing dir at
some other
location in same cvs repository?
/cvsroot/coolpaddy/source/dir_to_be_copied
Now I want to have dir_to_be_copied at /cvsroot/coolpaddy
level too. I dont
want to checkin again dir_to_be_copied as it is too big in
size(around 10GB)
and would take a lot time.
Is there any alternate way to achieve the same?
Thanks!
~paddy

Perhaps something like this?

mkdir /cvsroot
cd /cvsroot
cvs -d /path/to/repository co coolpaddy/source/dir_to_be_copied
cd coolpaddy
cvs -d /path/to/repository co -d dir_to_be_copied coolpaddy/source/dir_to_be_copied

This presumes that /path/to/repository contains coolpaddy/source/dir_to_be_copied,
but regardless the principle is that you can checkout a repository directory into
the sandbox pretty much whereever you want to.

You can update both simply with:

cd /cvsroot
cvs update

You can commit from either directory and the committed files go to the same place
in the repository

/path/to/repository/coolpaddy/source/dir_to_be_copied

There are still two copies in your sandbox, but only one in the repository.

---
Kevin R. Bulgrien
Design and Development Engineer

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