On Thu, 07 Feb 2019, at 13:46:00 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > $ cd /tmp > > $ mkdir foo > > $ cvs -d /tmp/foo init > > cvs [init aborted]: init to an existing repository is restricted to > members of the group cvsadmin > > $ grep cvsadmin /etc/group > > $ > > > > I thought that if the cvsadmin group didn't exist on the system, > this > > restriction would be completely ignored? (according to "cvs admin" > command - > > no mention of it being applicable at all to "cvs init") > > I just did "cvs -d /tmp/foo init" without creating foo first, and it > worked fine (netbsd-8). > > The error is about running init on an *existing* repository. > > I don't see that rerunning init on a repo that exists is something > anybody really wants to do, and if they do why using rm first is a > real problem.
The CVS documentation for version 1.12.13 states: "cvs init is careful to never overwrite any existing files in the repository, so no harm is done if you run cvs init on an already set-up repository." https://web.archive.org/web/20111020045251/http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.12.13/cvs_2.html#SEC2 > As for the man page omission, maybe see if the bug is in upstream and > file a bug with them ;-) ? > > We could change the code to just not allow init of an existing dir at > all. There is also a related NetBSD PR filed back in 2011: http://gnats.netbsd.org/45182 Regards, Dave
