Hello all,
Apologies in advance for what may turn out to be a stupid question. I'm
only familiar with the discussions on the list over the past few months.
I've done everything I can think of to try to get a W2K CVS client to
work with a Linux CVS server. It almost works, but I have a specific
problem: I can't checkout a repository after I've created it. I can
checkout the CVSROOT directory, if I specify it. But, "checkout .",
which works on my Linux machine, doesn't work on the W2K client. As a
result, I can't add files or directories to the repository I am able to
create.
I'm guessing that I'm doing something completely boneheaded (some of you
might say: "Yeah, you're using Windows"), because I can't find any
reference to this problem anywhere.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Examples follow:
I can init a repository:
Win2K> cvs -d :server:user@linuxbox:/home/user/repository init
But, when I try to check out this new repository, here's what happens:
Win2K> cvs -t -d :server:user@linuxbox:/home/user/repository checkout .
cvs checkout: notice: main loop with
CVSROOT=:server:user@linuxbox:/home/user/repository
S-> so_module (., Updating, , )
cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or
directory
cvs [checkout aborted]: no repository
I've tried with the '.' in quotes, in apostrophes, escaped, etc.
As a check of my own sanity, I logged into linuxbox and tried to
checkout there:
linuxbox> cvs -d /home/user/repository checkout .
cvs checkout: Updating .
cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT
U CVSROOT/commitinfo
[snip]
U CVSROOT/verifymsg
It turns out that cvs checkout on the W2K client does work if I specify
a named directory. For example:
W2K> cvs -d :server:user@linuxbox:/home/user/repository checkout CVSROOT
cvs server: Updating CVSROOT
U CVSROOT/checkoutlist
etc. etc. etc.
What's the deal? Thanks again.
-K
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