[drupal-docs] Re: [drupal-devel] a handbook page suggestion

[Boris Mann]

Karoly:

I'm cc'ing the Drupal-docs list. Anyone can add to the Handbook. Go
ahead and right it up, and either ping me/the docs list when it is
done and a site maintainer will review and approve it.

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:35:14 +0100, Negyesi Karoly <karoly at negyesi.net> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd suggest putting this into the Drupal.org handbook. While hacking a
> Drupal module is fun, using command line cvs is definitely not. Here is
> some help learned the hard way (thanks Killes!):
> 
> If you would like to add a file or a directory, it is the parent
> directory
> you need. Once again: the parent directory, not the dir you want to add
> something to but the parent of it. I can not find any logic in this, but
> this is so.
> 
> First, issue a
> export CVSROOT=:d:icvslogin:cvspasswd at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib
> 
> You would like to add a new file to a module?
> 
> cvs co contributions/modules/modulename
> cd contributions/modules
> copy file into modulename
> cvs add modules/filename
> cvs commit
> 
> Say you want to create a sandbox named ihatecvs. Then do a
> 
> cvs co contributions/sandbox/weblinks  (does not really matter which
> directory, I like this one, 'cos it is small)
> cd contributions
> mkdir sandbox/ihatecvs
> put some stuff into the directory sandbox/ihatecvs
> cvs add sandbox/ihatecvs
> cvs commit
> 
> Regards
> 
> Karoly Negyesi
>