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Abstract
How to check out a source tree from the CVS repository onto the local hard drive.
There are several modules in ReactOS' CVS repository. Each of these modules contains a seperate tree of files. Whenever you check out a tree, you must specify which module you want. The following modules are available in our repository:
Table 7.1. Modules
| Module Name | Description |
|---|---|
| freeldr | FreeLoader: boot manager of choice for ReactOS |
| reactos | ReactOS: Source code of the ReactOS kernel, subsystems and drivers |
| rosapps | ReactOS Applications: Source code of various applications that will be bundled with ReactOS |
| rosdocs | ReactOS documentation: at the moment a set of DocBook XML files |
| wine | WINE Port: code ported from the WINE project |
First go to the directory that you want to check the tree out into. Then issue the command
cvs -z 9 checkout module(where module is the name of one of the modules mentioned above). The "-z 9" switch is to use maximum compression to shorten download time. You might also notice that each directory checked out by cvs contains a subdirectory names "cvs". These subdirectory should not removed as they contain important CVS user and versioning information. You will not be able to properly update your tree if you remove one of these "cvs" subdirectories.
To check out the "reactos" module, we will first create a "ros" directory that will contain all modules from the repository and then do the check out:
C:\>md rosC:\>cd rosC:\ROS>cvs -z 9 checkout reactos
The next section "Updating your tree with the latest code" will explain how to use the "update" CVS command to update your tree with the latest changes. You should only have to check out a tree once and perform updates on the tree after that. If you encounter abnormalities with your tree in the future, however, you may wish to delete it and do a checkout again (this should be a rare occurance).