sean - please read the links that derek provided and ask clarifying questions there is needed. i get the feeling you didn't read given the broad nature of your question. Sean Robertson wrote:
Can your describe in a little more detail exactly what this module does? I already use CVS to get all of my sites (I have a setup script that creates the vhost on our server, sets up the database and user, and downloads drupal from CVS).
Derek Wright wrote:
Hello world,
FYI for anyone who cares about deploying Drupal sites directly via CVS...
As per the discussions at:
http://drupal.org/node/124661 (about providing support to update_status for folks who deploy from CVS)
http://drupal.org/node/150316 (about moving all CVS-specific code out of update_status)
and my meta comments on Dries's article about git: http://buytaert.net/linus-torvalds-on-git
I decided to create a new contrib module called "CVS deploy": http://drupal.org/project/cvs_deploy
See the description on the project page for more info.
I'll make some release tags soon, probably once update_status 5.x-2.0 (at least a beta) is out. Meanwhile, HEAD is for 5.x core.
Cheers, -Derek (dww)
p.s. I hope to integrate this with drush_pm.module in the future to finally implement my dreams for a script to automatically update a site to the latest recommended official releases from all of your currently installed modules, directly via CVS. For the interested reader:
http://drupal.org/project/drush http://drupal.org/node/124661
p.p.s. This module is only targeted at power users/developers who deploy sites via CVS, which is why I'm spamming this list about it. ;)