Cyclic cvsmapfs page

The only thing CVS promises to restore at checkout is the contents of files, not owners, groups, modes, symlinks, or devices. Cvsmapfs records this extra information so you can restore it after a checkout, and then deletes non-files and non-dirs so cvs won't choke on them. It restores empty directories that cvs 'optimized away'. It deals transparently with funny characters in filenames, and warns you when they might cause cvs or rcs to misbehave. It puts hard links back, even when they aren't in the same directory.

Mailing lists and newsgroups

The most appropriate mailing list is info-cvs which also covers CVS itself in addition to cvsmapfs. To subscribe send mail to info-cvs-request@gnu.org. Traffic has been something like 5-10 messages per day.

The newsgroup for cvsmapfs (and other version control systems) is comp.software.config-mgmt.

Paid Support

According to the Working Version page mentioned below, they are available for cvsmapfs support.

Getting cvsmapfs

I suppose we need to make an explicit disclaimer that cvsmapfs is not supported by Cyclic.

Download cvsmapfs from the Working Version FTP site mentioned below.

For more information

Working Version's FTP site for cvsmapfs is ftp://ftp.pn.com/pub/bb/cvsmapfs. Working Version's main web page is at http://www.wv.com/.

See our System Administration page for more on using CVS for tasks which might cvsmapfs or related functionality.