Re: Help on checking out files from remote repository

[Larry Jones]

Datla, Raghav writes:
> 
> i am using the below command to for remote repository, its giving the error.
> $ /usr/local/bin/cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/cvsroot co -d
> neptune/monitor neptune-test/neptune/monitor
> cvs server: cannot chdir to neptune: No such file or directory
> cvs server: ignoring module neptune-test/neptune/monitor
> I already created neptune/monitor directory.

This is an unfortunate result of the way client/server CVS works.  In
general, exactly the same command gets run on the server in a temporary
directory as what you typed.  In this case, although you created the
neptune/monitor directory on the client, no one has created it in the
server's temporary directory, so the command fails when the server tries
to run it.  Fixing it is extremely difficult, but there is a reasonably
simple workaround:

        cd neptune/monitor
        /usr/local/bin/cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/cvsroot co -d . 
neptune-test/neptune/monitor
        cd ../..

-Larry Jones

They can make me do it, but they can't make me do it with dignity. -- Calvin