How do i checkout files in a directory non recursively in CVS

Question

I want to checkout files of a directory from cvs server using cvs checkout command, but it is checking out files in recursive directories fashion,which i dont want.Please help me out.

For example i have following directory structure in cvs server.

dir1/abc
dir1/xyz
dir1/xyz/a1/a11
dir1/xyz/a1/a12

and i want to checkout files which are in dir1 directory only.

Please help me out !!!!

Answer 1

You can use the -l option to achieve this.

cvs checkout -l dir1

Cvs will not recurse into subdirectories.