>> The cvs on MacOSX does not [work]. My mistake. > From: Mike Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CVS works just fine - it's just that the filesystem is case insensitive > [1], so when you check out src/contrib, the distinction between > src/contrib/CVS [2] src/contrib/cvs is lost, and Bad Shit happens.
Damn. I keep forgetting about the Mac OSX stupid, case-insesitive HFS+. I HATE that! It's burned me more than once. Unfortunately, moving to UFS is not an option for a whole host of reasons. Ya know, Apple stated on their Web site, "there is never any good reason to have a case-sensitive file system." Can you believe that? I wrote back to them and stated, "there is never any good reason to have a case-INsensitive filesystem." But, of course, they never replied. :) > Try using Disk Copy to setup and mount a blank (UFS) image, or having a > separate UFS partition. I did this and cvs now works perfectly. Thanks for the great tip. I REALLY appreciate it. > [1] Unless your filesystem is UFS, rather than HFS+, in which case > you'll have lots of interesting other problmes. I know. I once tried to move to UFS. Big mistake. Apple's UFS limits file sizes to 2GB, and it doesn't support meta-data. > [2] CVS keeps a shedload of metadata here Ahhh. Since the topic has moved from FreeBSD to Apple Mac OSX, it's now off-topic and I should now kill this thread. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
