Do I set this value on the server side? I'll look at it. Thanks
Steve
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Subject: Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:03:47 -0700
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Arno Schuring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not sure, but I might have (at least) a clue for you...
>
> >Hi
> >
> >I've tried 4 or 5 different Windows command-line versions of cvs.exe from
> >(1.10.5 to 1.11.20). Created a folder called cvs directly under C:\,
> >pointed the path stmt to it. Created Home=C: and CVSROO envrionment
> >variables, etc and successfully logged in to our linux repository where CVS
> >is kept.
>
> Note that you say "created a folder called cvs directly under C:\"...
>
> >
> >If I check out any of our CVS modules or projects from the main respository
> >to any subfolder of my drive C: everything goes smoothly. However none of
> >the versions of CVS I tried allow me to directly check out a project to the
> >root. So when at the dos prompt and I type
> >
> >C:\>cvs co -P newproj
> >
> >I get these bizzare errors:
> >
> >cvs checkout: in directory .:
> >cvs [checkout aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing
>
> I think cvs treats the 'cvs' dir found as its own administrative dir. It
> then fails because it expects CVS/Repository and CVS/Root to exist, which
> obviously don't. Remember that windows' filesystem is case insensitive...
>
> I'm not exactly sure of this, though: I fail to reproduce this on my machine
> (though it is linux, not windows):
Note: the 'TopLevelAdmin=yes' item in CVSROOT/config controls if a top-level 'CVS' administrative directory should be used. If your repository does not specify that option, then you won't care if there is a 'CVS' directory in your root or not.
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