CVS---Concurrent Versions System. Node: Regular modules

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C.1.2: Regular modules

mname [ options ] dir [ files... ]

In the simplest case, this form of module definition reduces to `mname dir'. This defines all the files in directory dir as module mname. dir is a relative path (from $CVSROOT) to a directory of source in the source repository. In this case, on checkout, a single directory called mname is created as a working directory; no intermediate directory levels are used by default, even if dir was a path involving several directory levels.

For example, if a module is defined by: 

regmodule first-dir

then regmodule will contain the files from first-dir: 

$ cvs co regmodule
cvs checkout: Updating regmodule
U regmodule/file1
U regmodule/file2
cvs checkout: Updating regmodule/sdir
U regmodule/sdir/sfile
$

By explicitly specifying files in the module definition after dir, you can select particular files from directory dir. Here is an example: 

regfiles first-dir/sdir sfile

With this definition, getting the regfiles module will create a single working directory `regfiles' containing the file listed, which comes from a directory deeper in the CVS source repository: 

$ cvs co regfiles
U regfiles/sfile
$
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