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RE: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing


From: Arno Schuring
Subject: RE: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:28:11 +0000



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):

address@hidden:~/work> mkdir CVS
address@hidden:~/work> cvs up
cvs update: in directory `.':
cvs update: CVS directory found without administrative files.
cvs update: Use CVS to create the CVS directory, or rename the
cvs update: directory if it is intended to store something
cvs update: besides CVS administrative files.
cvs [update aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing!
address@hidden:~/work> cvs --version

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.11 (client/server)
[...]

but checkouts do succeed:
address@hidden:~/work> cvs co -P in4073
cvs checkout: Updating in4073
[...]


P.s. I meant to say WinXP desktop and Win2003 netwrk servers and repositories being on Linux servers. Thanks again

Steven



Hope this helps,

Arno


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