A GNU Arch Handbook

4.1 Check Out a Project

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Having registered the appropriate archives, you can check out project from them. The command:

    % tla get lord@emf.net--2005/tla--devo--1.3.2 tla

creates a directory named tla containing a source tree checked out from the project archive.

By way of pointing out some "arch vocabulary":

    % tla get lord@emf.net--2005/tla--devo--1.3.2 tla
                   ^              ^    ^      ^    ^
                   |              |    |      |    |
              "archive name" "category"|      |    |
                                       |      |    |
                                    "branch"  |    |
                             \_____ _____/    |    |
                                   v          |    |
                                   |      "version"|
                           category+branch         |
                             = "package"       "project
                                                tree" directory
                                                name

Note 1: This operation doesn't get you a complete (buildable) tree for tla. It happens to check out just the core code in tla. The next section describes how to checkout a complete tree.

Note 2: The first time you perform this operation for a given project arch will spend a lot of time populating your revision library. Subsequent operations on the same project are likely to be much faster.

Commands Discussed

    % tla get -H

  

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Copyright

Copyright (C) 2005 Tom Lord (lord@emf.net)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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