Re: checkout different modules at one?!

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Chris Palmer wrote:

> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:33:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chris Palmer <address@hidden>
> To: Info-CVS Mailing List <address@hidden>
> Subject: [info-cvs] Re: checkout different modules at one?!
> 
> I don't have the original author's name, but what you want to look
> into is the "modules" config file for CVS, which can let you do this.

But beware that modules are a hack that flies in the face of sane
version control.

The rearrangements of the modules file are not part of your project's 
version history; rearranging the structure via the modules file 
affects previously tagged configurations of a source tree.

Newly added modules are not picked up by running cvs up -d in
existing sandboxes; modules are processed at checkout time only.

When you use modules, the pathnames in rdiff are incorrect; they are
the physical repository path names, ignoring the module structure.
This means that rdiff does not generate correct patches over
source trees assembled using modules.