checking out from cvs without cvs info?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-12-15 22:14, Choy Kho Yee <khoyee at tf7.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hi, for a certain reason I need to check out sources for one of my
> programs from the local CVS repository, without the "CVS" folder in
> every directory but just my source files. How can I do that?

There are multiple ways to do that.

1) Check out as usual, then delete all the CVS/ stuff:

	% cvs -d /cvs/repo checkout module
	% find module -type d -name CVS | xargs rm -fr

2) Use the `export' command and a specific tag/version:

	% cvs export -rHEAD module

Both should leave you with the HEAD revision of every file in `module'.
If you need to update to a branch or tag, use the appropriate -r TAG as
checkout or export options, i.e.:

	% cvs checkout -r TAG module
	% cvs up -Pd -r TAG
	% find . -type d -name CVS | xargs rm -fr

or

	% cvs export -r TAG module