Providing customized source code control with CVS

In CVS, a module is a directory or group of directories that can be checked out by name. All top-level directories in the repository are automatically modules. So, what do you want to do?

• Allow a user to get a list of modules
• Provide a convenient name for multiple directories
• Provide independent access to subdirectories
• Create superdirectories containing more than one directory
• The "module" file in the CVSROOT directory enables you to combine directories to some extent.

  A module is a directory tree that can be checked out as one unit. Any top-level directory in the repository is a module (including CVSROOT), along with anything defined as such in the module file.

  It is possible to define modules in other ways, the primary purpose of this being to make modules that are combinations of other modules.

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  Permission granted for verbatim copying and use within an organization.

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