Bug in CVS 1.11 with client/server 'cvs export'.

[Tony Byrne]

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bug-cvs,

I've come across a problem with client/server 'cvs export' in version
1.11, where the export fails while trying to export a module to a
clean directory.  CVS complains that I cannot 'export into a working
directory' despite the target directory being empty and thus free of
any CVS admin files.

Last month Anthony Caetano posted a description of a very similar
problem with 'cvs export' to this list.  As far as I can tell his
problem remains unresolved and I suspect that both share a root cause.

The good news is that I've tracked the cause of my problem down to the
'TopLevelAdmin' setting that I had enabled in the repository's
CVSROOT/config file. The problem occurs when TopLevelAdmin=yes, but
not when TopLevelAdmin=no or when it is omitted from the config file.
While fiddling with this setting fixes the export problem, surely
remote exports *should* work regardless of what TopLevelAdmin is set
to?

Regards,

Tony.

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Tony Byrne, Head of Application Development, Directski.com
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