Recovering files from archive of CVS *,v files
Yes, install a CVS client, set environment variable CVSROOT to point to the root of your repository, and type cvs checkout dir
where dir
is a top level directory in your repository.
If for some reason you only have individual ,v
files, they are in rcs
format, so if the rcs
program is installed it should be able to get the tip revision out of any ,v
file.
Latest windows binary can find here:
https://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/stable/x86-woe/
For example: Place your reposity files here: c:\cvs (like c:\cvs\PROJECT create c:\cvs\CVSROOT
create c:\work save cvs.exe here
run:
cvs -d c:\cvs checkout PROJECT
You don't even need to use cvs
. cvs
was just a front end to rcs
, and the *.v
files are really rcs
files. Just check them out. eg, if you have foo,v
just execute:
co foo
and it will checkout foo from the *,v
file