Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > * On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:53:28AM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote: > > > As a side note, though: don't be poking around the Entries > file. There > > is rarely, if ever, any need to examine the contents of the file. > > You mean, do not poke around with them unless you are working on a > Windows system, the server is Linux, and in the repository, there are > two directories > > SOMEPATH\ABC > and > SOMEPATH\abc > > where ABC/ is empty (everything in the Attic), and abc/ contains some > data? In this case, cvs cannot checkout abc/ because ABC/ is > in the way. No, I mean "do not poke around with the CVS/Entries file".
If you get into that situation, then the solution is to (a) go rap somebody's knuckles, then (b) fix the collision in the repository. > If you want to use cvs, you HAVE to fiddle around with the > Entries file. I would disagree completely with that statement. I've been using CVS on Windows, with a UNIX server, for over 8 years, and I have never "had" to fiddle with the Entries file. There have been occasions where tweaking the Entries file was the quickest way to accomplish what I wanted, but those times are quite rare. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts ) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs