Xorg CVS HEAD is clean / was: Re: Old and new CVS repositoriesare available via rsync

[Eric Anholt]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 02:38, Christian Parpart wrote:
> On Monday 22 November 2004 11:21 am, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:59 +0100, Christian Parpart wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 November 2004 10:51 am, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:47 +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > > > > Thanks! :)
> > > > > ... can we resume now normal work again (checkouts, commits etc.) or
> > > > > are there any problems (or objections) with that yet ?
> > > >
> > > > Feel free to start working as if nothing had ever happened.
> > >
> > > $ cvs co -d :pserver:anoncvs at freedesktop.org:/cvs xlibs
> > > /cvs: no such repository
> > >
> > > So I guess you just removed /cvs/CVSROOT, right? :))
> >
> > If it ever worked, it was because you were lucky.
> 
> It must have been. Because I have the whole tree, somehow I managed this 
> without doing a `foreach module; do check this out`;
> 
> > export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xlibs
> > cvs co module
> 
> So if I want the whole xlibs/ dir, I need to co each and little subdir? 
> well..., good to know that this "shall" be done just once ;)

cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xlibs co .

Note that that'll check the modules into your current directory.

The CVSROOT that existed under /cvs was always a mistake, in my opinion.

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