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Re: RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"] |
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Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:40:04 +0200 (CEST) |
address@hidden (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
>
> [ On Monday, July 9, 2001 at 20:22:56 (-0700), David Taylor wrote: ]
> > Subject: RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as
> > 'root'"]
> >
> > When someone who has long chanted "RTFM!" as the panacea for countless ills
> > can't find what he wants in the manual (and is thus led to proclaim its
> > absence a "failing of the manual"), though it exists in the manual...we can
> > all agree that there is a problem here.
>
> Oh, I hope I've never really claimed the fine manual was the only
> panacea for all ills! ;-) I recant if I did!
>
> Of course my inability to find something in the manual isn't necessarily
> due to a failing in the manual either. My self analysis was an attempt
> to discover why *I* had a problem finding a particular reference.
> Whether my experiences would match those of anyone else is a very
> different question, the answer to which is left as an excercise for the
> reader! ;-)
Well, you're not alone having difficulties with the CVS manual. Either
a good number of CVS users like me are dumb or indeed there's a
problem with the manual.
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- Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", (continued)
- Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Greg A. Woods, 2001/07/09
- Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Daniel Beckham, 2001/07/09
- Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Greg A. Woods, 2001/07/09
- Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Daniel Beckham, 2001/07/09
- Improving CVS docs [was: Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"], David Taylor, 2001/07/09
- Attention CVS Zealots (was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"), John Minnihan, 2001/07/09
- Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Larry Jones, 2001/07/09
- Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Greg A. Woods, 2001/07/09
- RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"], David Taylor, 2001/07/09
- Re: RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"], Greg A. Woods, 2001/07/10
- Re: RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"],
Pascal Bourguignon <=
- Re: RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"], Greg A. Woods, 2001/07/11
- Re: RTFM? [ was Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'"], Robert Koberg, 2001/07/11
RE: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Matthew Von-Maszewski, 2001/07/08
Re: "cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'", Greg A. Woods, 2001/07/08