Re: [Sandweb-users] No files visible in directories

[Rob H. <ro...@ro...>]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:12:46AM +0200, Meinolf Sander wrote:
> * Quoting Rob Helmer <ro...@ro...>:
> 
> ms@mars:~$ sudo ls /usr/share/sandweb/users/ms/GRUB/grub-0.93/docs
> CVS
> 
> ms@mars:~$ sudo ls /usr/share/sandweb/users/ms/GRUB/grub-0.93/docs/CVS
> Entries  Repository  Root
> 
> ms@mars:~$ ls /var/local/cvs/grub-0.93/docs
> boot.S       grub.info-3       internals.texi  mdate-sh          src2texi
> boot.S.texi  grub-install.8    kernel.c        menu.lst          stamp-vti

Ok, now we are getting somewhere :)

Something does not look right here - /var/local/cvs/grub-0.93 is
not a CVS module ( if it was, all these files would end in ",v"
meaning they are version controlled by RCS ).

You need to do a couple things to create a CVS repository, unfortunately
SandWeb cannot do these things yet :( not until after 1.0 anyway.

If I am wrong and you are sure this is a CVS repository, don't
do the following :) Tell me what you've done so far. If you've
just copied plain files into /var/local/cvs/grub-0.93, then you
need to do the following :

You should move /var/local/cvs/grub-0.93 to your home directory, leaving
/var/local/cvs there ( is there anything else in /var/local/cvs ? )

Here's the procedure to create a new repo and import files :

# go inside the dir containing the files you want to put under
# version control

cd ~/grub-0.93/

# point CVS to where your CVSROOT is/will be

export CVSROOT=/var/local/cvs 

# this creates the repository based on the CVSROOT

cvs init

# import this dir, creating a "cvs module"
# it's normal to name this "grub" not "grub-0.93", since you'll
# want to do releases from within CVS using tags, not with
# the directory name. ultimately it's up to you though.
# parameters to "cvs import" command are : 
# module name, vendor name, release-tag
# the following will work :

cvs import grub msander R0_1

# if everything goes ok, you should now be able to check
# out the grub module 

cd ~/
cvs checkout grub

# you should now have a dir in ~/grub that's a valid checkout,
# and /var/local/cvs/grub should contain a bunch of normal
# directories and files ending in ",v".

--
Rob