Re: [h-e-w] pcl-cvs/cvs error, "^M: no such repository"

[Carl Seghers]

Hi Jeff,

Oops, I always seem to reply personally on the emacs list.  Sorry about 
that.  Normally one would expect the default reply to go to the list, 
but apparently not on the emacs list.  I'll have to look out for that in 
the future.

Anyway, since your previous question was about editing remote files (how 
about the adviced tag function, does it work?), I figured it might have 
been an issue in this case as well.   As it is not, I have no further 
suggestions, but...

I personally abandoned CVS in favor of Perforce.  Perforce is normally a 
commercial product, but you can use it for free as long as you require 
only 2 views on the depot at most, which suits me perfectly well for my 
home use (we have perforce to at the company too).    It gives you 
atomic commit with changelist views (i.e. see a complete change in all 
related files at once), which is what I missed most in CVS, and it may 
be a matter of taste but I find the integration with emacs 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/p4el/) to be far superior than pcl-cvs.

Just my 2 cents

Carl

(Disclaimer: I have no stake in Perforce.)



Rancier, Jeff wrote:

> No.  My repository is on my W2K box.  I'm trying to get my setup such that I
> do my compiling on the Unix box, and run Emacs via X on a Sun.  I need to
> keep the repository local, so I can back it up.
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Carl Seghers [mailto:address@hidden 
> | Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:13 AM
> | To: Rancier, Jeff
> | Subject: Re: [h-e-w] pcl-cvs/cvs error, "^M: no such repository"
> | 
> | 
> | Rancier, Jeff wrote:
> | 
> | >All, I just created from scratch, a new repository.  So keep 
> | in mind I can
> | >zap it.  All my pcl-cvs commands fail, due to what looks 
> | like a trailing
> | >'^M' somewhere.  I started clean, and imported a directory, 
> | then immediately
> | >did a checkout.  Output below:  As you can see, the get the 
> | problem right
> | >away.  I've zapped the directories, and tried in DOS and in 
> | Cygwin bash.
> | >Both times changing the file types of CVS/Root, Entries, and 
> | Repository from
> | >DOS to Unix and back, to no avail.  Was there something I missed when
> | >creating the repository?  The Emacs backtrace and output are 
> | below.  Any
> | >pointers would be appreciated.  I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.1
> | >(i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO.
> | >  
> | >
> | Do you have your repository on a remote unix system, while working in 
> | emacs on your PC?
> | 
> | Carl
> | 
>
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