[GLLUG] CVS newbie

[Ben Pfaff]

Mark Szidik/mlc <SzidikM at mlcnet.org> writes:

> I am new to CVS, I want to use it in a bit of a less traditional way - for
> tracking website changes.   Does anyone do that?  What I am confused about
> is where the web server should look to for it's copy of the site.  Does it
> look in the CVROOT's repository location?  That seems to make sense to me
> since any updates to the repository will get to the website immediately.

This would be difficult because the repository does not contain
any checked-out copies of the files it contains.  It mostly
contains files that aren't really intelligible except to CVS.

> Or does it work better to occasionally checkout the site to the location
> where the web server looks for the files?

This would be more usual.
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Ben Pfaff 
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