Re: Unable to release - why?

[Doug Lee]

Minor correction below...

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:18:09AM -0400, Doug Lee wrote:
> I just checked out a large collection of files with a command like
> 
> cvs -d /cygdrive/f/cvsr proj
> 
> then tagged the whole thing (and figured out I didn't need to check it
> out in the first place) like this
> 
> cvs -d /cygdrive/f/cvsr rtag tag1 proj
> 
> then moved one tag manually
> 
> cd proj/dir1
> cvs tag -F tag1 file1.txt
> 
> All this worked.  Then I tried to release the checkout:
> 
> cd ../..
> cvs -d /cygdrive/f/cvsr release -d proj
> 
> I tried with and without the second -d, but the result was always the
> same:  "cvs release: unable to release `proj'."
> 
> This is CVS 1.11.17 (client-server) as came with a very recent full
> installation of Cygwin.  I run it under Cygwin (tcsh) on Windows XP
> Pro with the latest service packs and critical updates.  Drive F is a
> thumb drive.  The CVSROOT/history file does show a T record for my
> checkout, and it has 644 perms and is owned by me.

I meant an O record.  There's a T record after it for the tag I
applied to the whole project.

> Anyone know why I can't release?
> 
> Thanks much.

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