Segmenting a Module

If you have a very large module, you might want to allow users to check out only a portion of the module, possibly as small as a few files.

Conversely, you might want to allow someone to check out several modules at once.

The modules file has the format:

modulename directory-path

where directory-path is a path relative to the top level of the CVS repository. If files are included after directory path, only those files will be checked out. Examples:

manual         documentation/manual
manual-only    documentation/manual  userguide.sgml

Using an ampersand (&) will allow you to incorporate other modules into your new module. Using -a will create an alias (when you check out module, it will retain original name(s)).

all	&documentation &training
doc     -a documentation