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dale
dale

Reputation: 1

Identifying Centralized Repo for CVS

I was given a directory of files that were under CVS control. However, how can I identify which of the dirs is the centralized repo for CVS (and not a checked out version on a local directory).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (3)

David Norman
David Norman

Reputation: 19879

If you still have the CVS directories from a checked out area, you can look in CVS/Root to get the location of the CVS repository and in CVS/Repository files path for that directory relative to the root.

Upvotes: 1

Yann Ramin
Yann Ramin

Reputation: 33177

See this.

The CVS repository will contain the RCS files (generally ending in ,v).

I'd seriously consider migrating the repository to something other than CVS (Git, Hg, even SVN).

Upvotes: 1

Rup
Rup

Reputation: 34408

The centralised CVS repository will have a directory CVSROOT containing repository configuration and other subdirectories in the repository structure. All of the checked-in files will have a ,v suffix (RCS-style) on their extension. Deleted files will be in subdirectories attic.

Checked out versions have a CVS subdirectory in every folder. There'll be files in containing the checkout source (root or repository - I forget) and current tag / branch if appropriate (tag - first letter N for tag or B for branch I think).

Upvotes: 2

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