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

[Meinolf S. <uc...@de...>]

* Quoting Rob Helmer <ro...@ro...>:

[...]
> 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 :

Well, I simply extracted a grub tarball for testing into /var/local/cvs.

> 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 ? )

No.

> 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".

That worked perfect, now all is fine and SandWeb is showing everything
I expected it to.  I really was naive to believe I could start right
away without generating a CVS repository.  Guess I still have to do some
reading on that subject ...

Thank you very much for helping, Rob!


Best regards,
Meinolf
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