If you're running the server on Windows check for dead cvs processes on it (
you'll need to run some sort of scheduled kill task to remove them - take a
look at http://devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm#maintenance).

Also, make sure your %TEMP% and %TMP% variables are set up - the only times
I've had the 'File Exists' error is when there's a file in the cvs temp
directory that cannot be deleted.

hth

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 04 July 2002 02:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cvsnt] Help needed with Creating a Branch



"Bobafett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am trying to create a branch so i can commit changes to my code.  I am
> using WinCVS version 1.3 and when i create a new branch i put in the
branch
> name and the module i want to fork.  I then get the following error

> cvs [rtag aborted]: cannot rename file
> d:\Groups\2002\project\team041\Zero41/,Zero41.cpp, to
> d:\Groups\2002\project\team041\Zero41/Zero41.cpp,v: File exists

> What am i doing wrong?  any help would be great


I have just encountered the same problem.  I have been using the
command-line CVS, but another user has been using WinCVS.

Known Facts:

  - the contents of the repo version seem fine, AFAIK.
  - the file seems to have gone bad after version 1.4; the first
    4 versions worked hunky-dory
  - at the time of the problem, the file in question was the
    only one in the project with the readonly bit _NOT_ set;
    setting this bit results in the next repo action (I used
    a tag) returning "end of file from server", and a subsequent
    tag again returning "cannot rename file ... File exists".


Any thoughts?  Anybody?

Thanks,
Andrew.

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