Re: Nasty assertion error when trying to checkout a tagged revision

[David Zaroski]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Bruce Pennypacker wrote:

BP>Larry Jones wrote:
BP>
BP>>Bruce Pennypacker writes:
BP>>>
BP>>> > cvs checkout -r RA0irbl011631
BP>>> corp/search/c++/applications/summarizerService/SummarizerService.cpp
BP>>> > cvs: lock.c:177: lock_name: Assertion `(__extension__
BP>>[...]
BP>>> > (CVSroot_directory)))) == 0' failed.
BP>>
BP>>That generally indicates that one or more of the directories in that
BP>>path are really symbolic links, which confuses the CVS lock code.
BP>
BP>Bingo.  We just moved the repository for maintainence reasons and added a
BP>symlink to keep the old path valid.  I guess we'll either have to move the
BP>repository back or set up a different root for it...

Or just use the full path with the global '-d' flag.

.....Dave