[cvsnt] Re: Newbie -- CVS vs. Filesystem

[Glen Starrett]

Trip Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I'm new to setting up and administering CVS (have used M$ VSS, but only 
> as an end-user, and enough to dislike it) and I'm not grokking how we 
> should handle deployment of dev files to a staging or production server. 
> Somehow, this seems like a pretty basic CVS concept that I'm missing: 
> Where in the filesystem are the latest up-to-date files? If we fix one 
> line of code in one file, where is the file we need to push?
> 
> Example: When I edit (locally) the root file for a website and commit 
> the changes, I see the edits on my local webserver, but when I look at 
> the remote webserver, the change is not on the page. What am I missing?

You need to do a "cvs update" on the other sandbox.  You can use a 
POSTCOMMIT script to help automate the distribution if you want a remote 
sandbox to be kept in sync with the repository.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Starrett