Checking Out a Branch

As an alternative to updating a working copy, you could check out a branch into a separate directory. You can use -d option to cvs co to put branch into separate directory.

Example:

$ cvs -d /home/cvsroot co -d hello-1-0 -r Release-1-0-branch hello
cvs checkout: Updating hello-1-0
U hello-1-0/Makefile
U hello-1-0/README
U hello-1-0/hello.py
$ ls
./  ../  hello/  hello-1-0/
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