Re: checking out modules into an existing directory

[Matthew Riechers]

Jason Allen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem checkout out modules into an
> existing directory. If I try to do this I get the
> following error:
> 
> cvs checkout: in directory c:\temp\source:
> cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No
> such file or directory
> 
> If I check the module out when there is no existing
> directory and it creates a new one, everything works
> fine. The problem is I need to be able to check it out
> into an existing directory.

Is that directory already controlled by CVS?

> 
> Anyone know a way to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason A.

What command did you run?

Are you trying to do 'cvs co -d source module'? That doesn't mean
'create directory source\module'. It means 'create a sandbox dir called
"source" for module'.

It won't work if CVS doesn't know about that directory. 'cvs co' on an
existing sandbox effectively does a 'cvs update'

HTH,

-Matt