Checkout from Drupal CVS with this handy shell command

As noted in Jody's blog-post regarding this same subject, there are a number of tools out there which allow for simple cvs checkout from Drupal's repository. Unfortunately, they need to be installed separately for each website, which can be a pain.

Rather than continue the tedious task of looking up cvs commands everytime I want to checkout a drupal theme or drupal itself, I updated Jody's drcvs command to allow for more than just module checkout.

How to set it up:
(Tested on Mac and Ubuntu)

• Open a new Terminal, navigate to the /usr/bin folder
  cd /usr/bin
• Create a new text file called 'drcvs' with some command line text editor( vi, vim, mate, emacs, etc... )
  vi drcvs
  Note: if you are not the root user, you may have to use 'sudo vi drcvs'
• Paste this code into the new file:
  #!/bin/bash
if [ $1 == -t ]
then
  cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r $3 -d $2 contributions/themes/$2
elif [ $1 == -d ]
then
  cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -d $2 -r $3 drupal
elif [ $1 == -l ]
then
  export CVSROOT=:pserver:$2@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib
  cvs login
else
  cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r $2 -d $1 contributions/modules/$1
fi

• Save the file (in vi, or vim type ':wq').
• To prevent getting 'permission denied errors', you can then run the following commands at the shell prompt:
  
  cd /usr/bin
sudo chmod 755 drcvs

How to use the command at the shell prompt:

• Checking out a module
  drcvs "module-name" "tag"
• Checking out a theme
  drcvs -t "theme-name" "tag"
• Checking out drupal
  drcvs -d "local-folder-name" "tag"
• For module maintainers - make the Drupal contributions repository your CVS root and login with CVS account.
  drcvs -l "user-name"

Examples:
(You'll need to look up the tags from drupal.org. You'll also need to navigate to the folder within which you want the module/theme/drupal to be placed.)

• Checkout version 5.x-1.6 of the views module:
  drcvs views DRUPAL-5--1-6
• Checkout version 6.x-1.0 of the zen theme
  drcvs -t zen DRUPAL-6--1-0
• Checkout the latest version of Drupal into the folder examplesite
  drcvs -d examplesite HEAD
• Set your CVSROOT to the Drupal contributions repository and CVS login using cvs_username
  drcvs -l cvs_username