2.5 Multiple repositories
In some situations it is a good idea to have more than
one repository, for instance if you have two
development groups that work on separate projects
without sharing any code. All you have to do to have
several repositories is to specify the appropriate
repository, using the CVSROOT
environment
variable, the `-d' option to CVS, or (once
you have checked out a working directory) by simply
allowing CVS to use the repository that was used
to check out the working directory
(see section Telling CVS where your repository is).
The big advantage of having multiple repositories is
that they can reside on different servers. With CVS
version 1.10, a single command cannot recurse into
directories from different repositories. With development
versions of CVS, you can check out code from multiple
servers into your working directory. CVS will
recurse and handle all the details of making
connections to as many server machines as necessary to
perform the requested command. Here is an example of
how to set up a working directory:
| cvs -d server1:/cvs co dir1
cd dir1
cvs -d server2:/root co sdir
cvs update
|
The cvs co
commands set up the working
directory, and then the cvs update
command will
contact server2, to update the dir1/sdir subdirectory,
and server1, to update everything else.