[documentation] CVS Checkout Instructions Wrong -- please verify

[Steven Peck]

That page has been around a while.  I will try and point it out to dww
and get him to review it in light of the other cvs documentation that
has been generated since that was originally written.

On Feb 5, 2008 1:50 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
> Here is a quote from the How to check out via CVS:
> http://drupal.org/node/320
>
> Checkout a specific Drupal version:
>
> $ cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r
> DRUPAL-5-5 drupal
>
> I believe what should be written is:
>
> Checkout a specific Drupal version:
>
> $ cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r
> DRUPAL-5 drupal
> The way it is written in the handbook makes it pointless to use cvs in the
> first place because the cvs up command won't do anything. It simply looks
> for any changes to Drupal 5-3. But there won't ever be any changes to Drupal
> 5-3. It's done. So it's just like installing a tarred version of 5.3 except
> it has a bunch of useless CVS metadata folders in it.
>
> Maybe also the description needs to change a little, because technically it
> does do what it says, there is just no point.
>
> There is a huge value in checking it out the way I propose fixing it,
> because it makes point upgrades really easy.
>
> I am a newbie to CVS so I didn't feel comfortable fixing it without
> consulting someone.
>
> Shai
>
>
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