Yes, 'cvs init' was all that was required. I did not install CVS and the
person who did, did not initialize the respository.
Thanks to all who pointed this out,
Mike Flynn
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Helmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:45 AM
To: Mike Flynn
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where is the Modules file when starting from scratch?
It looks like your CVSROOT is set, so do "cvs init".
That will create the CVSROOT/ dir and the administrative
files.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:23:59AM -0800, Mike Flynn wrote:
> New to CVS I followed the 'info cvs' section 'Creating a directory from
> scratch' and entered:
>
> $ cd tc
> $ cvs imnport -m "Created directory structure" yoyodyne/DIR yoyo
> start'
>
> which produced no error messages from CVS version 1.11 running under
> FreeBSD, but when
> I attempt to define the module 'tc' by first getting a copy of the modules
> file, CVS responds to the following entry:
>
> $ cvs checkout CVSROOT/modules
>
> with:
>
> $ cvs checkout $CVSROOT/modules
>
> CVS gives:
>
> $ cvs checkout: cannot find module `/usr/local/cvs/modules' -
> ignored
>
> Indeed there are no administrative files in /usr/local/cvs/ or any
> subdirectory.
> What do I need to do to have these files created?
>
> Mike Flynn
> Indyme Electronics, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 858-268-0717 x564
>
>
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