RE: Strange dir behavior and Emptydir

[Pyatt, Scott]

Larry,

We are currently running over 100 clients around the world connecting to a
single server.  Both client and server CVS versions are 1.10.  To fix this
problem, would I need to upgrade the client or server or both?  If the
problem is in the client, can I run a 1.11.1p1 client with a 1.10 server?
If the problem is in the server, can I run a 1.11.1p1 server with a 1.10
client?  This will help dictate my upgrade plan.

Thanks,
-Scott

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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:01 PM
To: Pyatt, Scott
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Subject: Re: Strange dir behavior and Emptydir


Pyatt, Scott writes:
>
> I tried the following: 
> 
>     cd parentDir
>     mkdir theDir
>     cvs add theDir
> 
> For this example assume "parentDir" is "/dirA/dirB/dirC".  The command
> produced the following output.
> 
>     Directory /cvsroot/CVSROOT/Emptydir/theDir added to the repository

You're running an old version of CVS -- the current version (1.11.1p1,
which you can get from www.cvshome.org) wouldn't have allowed you to
create that directory.

The problem is that parentDir isn't mapped to the repository directory
you think it should be.  In fact, it isn't mapped to any repository
directory at all -- that's what Emptydir is used for, a place to map
working directories that don't have any obvious mapping.  This is
usually the result of using -d, either in the checkout command or in the
module file, with multiple levels of directories specified; none but the
last level has an obvious mapping.  The current version of CVS is much
better at inferring mappings than previous versions were, which may be
another good reason to upgrade.

Feel free to edit CVS/Repository in that directory to point to the
repository directory you expect it to map to, which should solve your
problem.

-Larry Jones

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious
that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an
occasional bleak truth? -- Calvin