[openbeos] Re: cvs tarball

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:18:55 -0400 EDT

Jonas Sundstrom wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:26:41 +0200 CEST:
> 'co' works, but I get all files dumped in a single folder, 
> which is rather unpractical.. Is there a better way, or 
> must I write a recursive bash script that enters each
> subfolder?

That's sort of what I did.  Actually, I just made a file listing and used a 
text editor to convert it into a bash script.

> Here's what I've tried:
> 
> cd /boot/home/Desktop
> mkdir obos
> cd obos
> wget http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/open-beos-cvsroot.tar.gz
> tar -xvpzf open-beos-cvsroot.tar.gz
> find | xargs -i{} co {}

Maybe cvs can be set to point to the version files directory directly rather 
than a network connection?  Then you could use the conventiently recursive cvs 
commands to get the files.

- Alex

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