Questions about CVS

[Neulinger, Nathan]

> When compiling, do you compile within the CVS checkout directory?  (I 
> ask because cmpiling makes a bunch of new files, which I 
> imagine we want 
> to keep out of CVS).

Unless you 'cvs add' them, it won't have any impact. Typically in most
projects, generated files are listed in .cvsignore. 
 
> How do you keep both the HEAD and v1.8 branches (I know how to check 
> them both out, but they use the same top level directory 
> name)?  Can you 
> rename (for example) the directory holding the v1.8 branch from 
> "gnucash" to "gnucash_1.8"?

Yes, you can also do that at checkout time with -d I believe.

-- Nathan

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