cvs

cvs up -dP

If you want to completely wipe the slate clean, you can also do:

cvs up -dPC

Be careful with the C. That will overwrite anything in core you are working on.

following add1sun's page: http://drupal.org/node/315987

Ebony-II:~ ben$ cd /RCS/
Ebony-II:RCS ben$ mkdir projects
Ebony-II:RCS ben$ cd projects/
Ebony-II:projects ben$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:agaric@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib
Ebony-II:projects ben$ cvs login

Logging in to :pserver:agaric@cvs.drupal.org:2401/cvs/drupal-contrib
CVS password:

Adapted from my comments at mroswell's question about downloading all Drupal 5 modules with CVS on the Drupal Groups site. (The person who would know if anyone would, dww, says there's not a solution yet.)

$ cvs update -C
(Locally modified node.admin.inc moved to .#node.admin.inc.1.24)
(Locally modified node.module moved to .#node.module.1.974)
(Locally modified taxonomy.admin.inc moved to .#taxonomy.admin.inc.1.27)
(Locally modified taxonomy.module moved to .#taxonomy.module.1.425)
(Locally modified taxonomy.test moved to .#taxonomy.test.1.3)

drupal-6 and DRUPAL-6-3 need to be replaced with the major release and point release that you are dealing with (though with luck we'll have moved from CVS soon and this will all be moot).

We can commit to Drupal.org CVS and use it just like we use subversion to manage our sites. No more trying to develop a module in subversion and contribute changes to CVS, just do everything in CVS. It's not that much worse than SVN.

Don't believe me? Watch:

In the home local checkout:

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:agaric@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -d term_message contributions/modules/term_message

This was a module with a dead head, so I also had to do this (I could have put the -r DRUPAL-5 into the above command immediately after the checkout).

Ebony-II:term_message ben$ cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-5
cvs update: Updating .
U term_message.info

(Fix described more succinctly in my follow-up comment on my plea-for-help issue.)

Ebony-II:term_message ben$ cvs tag HEAD
? .DS_Store
? .svn
cvs tag: nothing known about term_message.info
cvs tag: nothing known about term_message.install
cvs tag: nothing known about term_message.module

Check out Drupal 5 to a directory called "drupal5" -- note the use of the -r and -d flags, and the final drupal is not the directory you put it in, but the directory you are getting it from on Drupal.org!

Current model for getting core for Agaric's centrally managed system:

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r DRUPAL-5-9 -d drupal-5 drupal

http://2bits.com/articles/upgrading-drupal-5-2-installations-to-5-3-secu...

Agaric has modified version the shell command version (listed by Khalid right above the comments) to be a script that can patch Drupal regardless of the name of its current directory..

Agaric's version is attached.