Re: can't seem to checkout from my pc running cygwin on XP

[Please]

On 19 Jun 2006 16:48:05 -0700, "René Berber" <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>Please wrote:
>
>> Running cygwin in rxvt with cvs 1.11.17 on XP -- all up to date.
>>
>> Can someone suggest a possible cause/fix for this?
>>
>> $ cvs co build
>[snip]
>> U build/make_includes/bld.platform.mk
>> Disconnecting: Timeout, server not responding.
>> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if 
>> any)
>>
>> This sort of thing has happened on every checkout I've tried from our local
>> repository.  I tried several different top level directories and same thing.
>>
>> I've checked out large projects from public repositories with no problems.
>
>Might be problems with CR-LF translation, either you have your
>repository on a text-mode mount point or you are using csh; both of
>those will get you CR-LF translation when cvs is not expecting any, and
>this is Cygwin specific.
>
>Something similar could be caused by not declaring binaries in the
>repository's cvswrappers.  Again something is translating CR-LF to LF
>and cvs is waiting for a number of bytes to arrive but translation has
>cut the file short.
>
>Solution: use only binary mounts, try another shell (bash works fine),
>define binary types of files in cvswrappers.
>
>HTH

Well, I downloaded and installed a pure win32 cvs (not cygwin version) and all 
is fine now. 

Thanks.