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Re: cvs and cvsup problems?

To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: cvs and cvsup problems?
From: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:37:08 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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At 08:23 AM 7/14/2001 -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> maybe i'm stupid, but i'm seeing really odd things with both tools (getting
> development trees):
>
> cvs: it gets a complete linux tree, but there is no top-level makefile. it
> isn't clear to me what to do, at that point.
>
> cvsup: it gets a complete tree, but there are all kinds of revision files (the
> ',v' suffixes), and attempts to build get weird errors from make.


The ,v files are RCS files.
Make sure you have the "tag=." field in your sup file if you want
the the actuall files.

i guess i was confused by the webpage directions. it (cvsup howto) said that if you want to track the development tree, remove the 'tag=.' from the cvsup file.




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