[cvsnt] Re: Why does chacl require a local checkout?

[Jakob Kruse]

Thanks Oliver.

Exactly what I was looking for (both ways actually) :-)

/Jakob


"Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net> wrote in message 
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> Jakob Kruse wrote:
>
>> Is there some workaround for this - some simple command to checkout a
>> single file AND get the top-level CVS directory too?
>
> Yep, the TopLevelAdmin option in CVSROOT/config controls this. It's
> pretty much one of the first things I set whenever I create a new
> repository.
>
> You could also get the repository root metadata into the current folder
> using the following command (regardless of the TopLevelAdmin option):
>
> cvs co -l .
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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