Re: Empty attic?

[Larry Jones]

Mike Ayers writes:
> 
>       I am using WinCVS.  The archive was originally created with CVS on 
> Cygwin, but, 
> unless I misread you, that shouldn't make a difference.

I think WinCVS is built using Cygwin, so the Cygwin bug is almost
certainly the problem.

>       I went into the preferences of WinCVS and change E:\CVSROOT to 
> E:/CVSROOT, 
> which made it change backslashes to slashes, but when I ran the rtag command 
> again, the output looked exactly the same as before.

Yes, that was to avoid problems you haven't had yet, not to fix the
current problem.

>       Would it be safe to just delete the Attic directory?

Yes, although I wish someone would convince the Cygwin developers to
track down the bug and fix it.

-Larry Jones

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