CVS bookmarks manual

To use this feature you have to manually set up a '.cvsbookmarks' file in your home directory (there's no system-wide bookmarks file! yet...) using your favourite text editor. The body of file schould consist of 'key=value' pairs. White spaces (e.g. 'key = value') are permitted. Lines that are beginning with '#', or that do not have '=' are silently ignored.

Example .cvsbookmarks follows:


	# cvs bookmarks for user foo

	#

	

	# local company CVS

	local=:pserver:foo@cvs.mycompany.com:/var/cvs

	

	# anonymous access to XFree86 repository

	xfree86=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.xfree86.org:/cvs

	

	# read-write access to project_delta (non existing ;)

	delta=:pserver:foo@delta-project.org:/home/cvs

	

	# end.

After setting up .cvsboomarks file you just supply key as argument to '-d' cvs option. For example to fetch module 'foo' from 'local' company CVS (as specified in example .cvsbookmarks file above) you would type:


	bash-2.03$ cvs -d local login

	using bookmark 'local' (:pserver:foo@cvs.mycompany.com:/var/cvs)

	(Logging in to foo@cvs.mycompany.com)

	CVS password: 

	

	bash-2.03$ cvs -d local co foo

	using bookmark 'local' (:pserver:foo@cvs.mycompany.com:/var/cvs)

	cvs server: Updating foo

	U foo/README

	U foo/foo.c

	U foo/bar.c

	bash-2.03$

Please note that normal CVS methods (local, pserver, etc.) work as expected, so bookmarks are only enchancement for lazy people like me :)