cvs

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

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

And then update to version numbers:

cvs update -r DRUPAL-6-5 -dP

http://2bits.com/articles/upgrading-drupal-5-2-installations-to-5-3-security-releases-using-a-single-patch.html

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.

HOWTO: Checkout a drupal module from Drupal CVS
http://drupal.org/node/120511

Thanks to John Forsyth's comment:

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r DRUPAL-6--1-4 -d example_module contributions/modules/example_module

agaric cvs delete directory

you can't delete directories in CVS

you make them empty. Then I don't know what.

I hate CVS.

http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/cvsmanual/Removingdirectories.html

OK, actually cvs update -P

maybe, possibly works. This is so silly.

Taken directly from Drupal.org's Step-by-step create a CVS project, with our notes.