Re: How do I import some specific files?

[Mark E. Hamilton]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi All -
>
> It seemed to me that with import, you just import all the files that
> under a certain directory to a certain directory in your CVSROOT
> repository.
>
> That is, for example, I am under directory foo that has a couple of
> files a, b, c, ...etc
> $cd foo
> $ls
>   a  b  c
> $cvs import -m "imported source" foo foo start
>
> This will import all files (a, b, c) to a subdirectory foo in CVSROOT.
>
> What if I just want to import file a to the repository? All the
> exmaples about "import" I have seem only apply to the whole current
> directory, instead of some files that we specify. Is there a command
> like
> $cvs import      /path/to/files/I/want
> /where/they/should/be/in/CVSROOT
>
> What I intended to do was import .vimrc file to a certain place in
> CVSROOT. The file .vimrc lies in my home directory. If I use the above
> command, it's gonna import everthing in my home directory....
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

If you want to add a file to an existing directory in the repository you 
should use 'cvs add'/'cvs commit'. Check out the directory where you 
want to add the file, copy it there from your home directory, then add 
and commit it.

If for some odd reason you want to add the file at the root of the 
repository you can use something similar to what Mark B. suggested the 
other day for adding a top-level directory (thanks, Mark.)

cvs checkout -d top -l .
cd top
cp ~/.vimrc .
cvs add .vimirc
cvs commit -m 'Some message' .vimrc

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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
505-844-7666