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Error in CVS Manual
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Gary Farmer |
Subject: |
Error in CVS Manual |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:38:41 -0500 |
I have been reading the CVS manual at
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC26.
In section 2.9.2, "Connecting with rsh", it gives an
example of a remote cvs command:
cvs -d :ext:bach@faun.example.org/usr/local/cvsroot checkout foo
I duplicated this as closely as I could, but it would not
work. It kept saying:
cvs checkout: didn't specify hostname in CVSROOT:
:ext:fsats1.arlut.utexas.edu/usr/fsats/cvs
cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT.
I finally searched some email archived and found
another example:
CVSROOT=:ext:localhost:/repository
This indicates a colon between hostname and CVSROOT.
I tried this and it worked. The equivalent in the above
example would be:
cvs -d :ext:bach@faun.example.org:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout foo
NOTE THE COLON ---^
This cost me an hour or so. I recommend it be fixed in the
manual. It should be trivial to fix.
Gary Farmer
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