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CVS: Checkout only the directory structure

How can I checkout only the directory structure of a project (without any files) in a CVS repository? This could be useful, e.g., to know the structure itself, and selectively checkout the folders later. I might not be interested in, say, the test cases folder which might take too much space on my local hard disk. ...

How can I list files in CVS without an initial checkout?

How can I list files CVS without an initial checkout? In subversion I can simply do "svn ls http://svn.svn.com" in CVS how can I do this? For example I've got this CVS connection: pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/evocms How can I list all files in it? UPDATE: I'm doing this: c:\>set CVSROOT=pserver:anonymou...

SVN checkout the contents of a folder, not the folder itself

Hey, I'm fairly new to linux and svn. I'm trying to checkout the trunk folder of a project into my public_html directory using this command (while in public_html): svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk The waterproject directory contains the files from untarring a base install of drupal. It checks out fine, ex...

SVN Checkout of drupal to another site

I'm trying to svn checkout into treeoil.com's public_html directory (site is not really named treeoil.com), but my repo is located on one of my other sites (landonwinters.com). When I try to do this checkout: svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/treeoil/trunk . But I get an error that reads: svn: Unable to open an ra_local se...

Try to svn checkout, but get: svn: '.' is already a working copy for a different URL

I'm trying to svn checkout into my public_html folder, but I get this error: svn: '.' is already a working copy for a different URL My brother already set up a boiler plate site for me, but I've changed it and put those changes into a repo of my own. How do I make this folder not be a working copy of the repo he set up originally? Can ...

Subversion: Check out only those files affected during a specific commit

In Subversion, is it possible to check out only those files affected during a specific commit, provided you know the specific revision number? ...

How To Find Checked Out Files

Hi all, I'm using Visual Source Safe 6.0d (work requirement) and I've been trying to hack together a little shell script to allow me to easily remove a source tree or warn me if I've got files checked out so I can make sure I don't accidentally delete work. Is there any way to tell if files are checked out other than checking the read-...

File Checkout/Version Control on PHP site

I realize that this question has been asked 100times but none that I have found really answers my questions. We have multiple developers in multiple locations working on the same project. Some use Windows, some use Mac, our server is Linux, and each developer uses a different development application (Dreamweaver, Eclipse, etc). Each dev...

How to fix subversion password config?

I want that everytime someone wants to checkout the project from SVN he/she will be prompted for credentials. This happens when someone tries to commit something, but not at checkout. Here is the svnserve.conf section : [general] anon-access = none auth-access = write password-db = passwd I figured that by setting anon-access to none...

CVS checkout ignore corrupted files

Is there a way to have CVS checkout everything and if it hits corrupted files it will just skip them and go on? ...

git: Retrieve a single file from a repository

What is the most efficient mechanism (in respect to data transferred and disk space used) to get the contents of a single file from a remote git repository? So far I've managed to come up with: git clone --no-checkout --depth 1 [email protected]:foo/bar.git && cd bar && git show HEAD:path/to/file.txt This still seems overkill. What abo...

Subversion Exclusive Checkout and Subversion Plugin for Delphi

Is there currently a feature that allows a exclusive checkout in SVN? and Is there a good plugin for Delphi that allows the access via IDE? ...

SVN: set properties on directories only

In SVN is there any way to set (bugtraq) properties on all directories in a tree without checking out the whole tree? I can't set properties in the repository directly without setting hooks. Even if I could I'm not sure this would help - you can't set recursive properties with Tortoise, and I suspect it wouldn't be straightforward with ...

CVS checkout: Checking out project to a directory other than the one you are currently in?

Currently I issue the following command: cvs -d /path/cvsroot checkout -P directory/powers_npg/ However, this checks out the entire directory structure that is above the directory to the location I am in when I issue this command. I am trying to check out this tree, but I want it checked out to a different directory than my PWD. I wo...

Capistrano and git checkout

Hi I am getting the following error when I do a cap deploy, which checks out of a git master repository: Could anyone please help me? Thanks in advance /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.5.8/lib/capistrano/configuration/servers.rb:78:in `role_list_from': unknown role `app' (ArgumentError) from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2...

How to add/remove folders without downloading from the repository in Subversion?

I have a huge repository where I want to add/remove a folder. I haven't checked out anything yet. There is any way to do it fast? ...

Merge two checkouts in bazaar

I'm just starting out with bazaar, and I've found that the checkout feature is the most useful for the way I work - namely I can c/o from a "master copy", do some development and then commit my changes in the new directory. This then updates the "master copy". But what if I'm working on (eg) two projects, changing different portions of...

How do I do an exclusive checkout in SVN?

Hi, I'm looking for a way to make an exclusive checkout from SVN. Is there a way to automatically lock a file when it's being checked out ? If one user makes an exclusive checkout, and then another user makes a checkout to the same file, how do I generate some sort of notification or an instant message to the 2nd user that the file i...

Should I checkout the full branch when performing only commits with Subversion?

I have a repository structure that looks like so: + tags + trunk + source + dotnet + flex + branches + milestone1 + dotnet + flex + milestone2 + dotnet + flex Typically, the .NET developers only checkout the 'dotnet' folders for the branch they are working in. Flex developers likewise chec...

svn / subversion: Get ALL files on new check out, but then exclude certain files from update/check in

After a fresh checkout, I want to get ALL files, specifically this file: etc/config.ini However, once I modify etc/config.ini, I do not want it committed with "svn commit ..." nor should it be reverted on a "svn up". This would allow you to get default values on an initial checkout (convention over configuration), but then after config...