To add a new file to a directory, follow these steps.
You can also use the add
command to add a new
directory.
Unlike most other commands, the add
command is
not recursive. You cannot even type `cvs add
foo/bar'! Instead, you have to
$ cd foo $ cvs add bar
-k
kflag] [-m
message] files ...
Schedule files to be added to the repository.
The files or directories specified with add
must
already exist in the current directory. To add a whole
new directory hierarchy to the source repository (for
example, files received from a third-party vendor), use
the import
command instead. See section import--Import sources into CVS, using vendor branches.
The added files are not placed in the source repository
until you use commit
to make the change
permanent. Doing an add
on a file that was
removed with the remove
command will undo the
effect of the remove
, unless a commit
command intervened. See section Removing files, for an
example.
The `-k' option specifies the default way that this file will be checked out; for more information see section Substitution modes.
The `-m' option specifies a description for the
file. This description appears in the history log (if
it is enabled, see section The history file). It will also be
saved in the version history inside the repository when
the file is committed. The log
command displays
this description. The description can be changed using
`admin -t'. See section admin--Administration. If you omit the
`-m description' flag, an empty string will
be used. You will not be prompted for a description.
For example, the following commands add the file `backend.c' to the repository:
$ cvs add backend.c $ cvs commit -m "Early version. Not yet compilable." backend.c
When you add a file it is added only on the branch which you are working on (see section Branching and merging). You can later merge the additions to another branch if you want (see section Merging can add or remove files).
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