Re: Mysterious error

[James Youngman]

Peter Wolfe <address@hidden> writes:

> Donald Sharp wrote:
> > 
> > These two files have been committed to the repository by someone
> > else.  You are attempting to do a cvs update.  cvs sees that
> > these two files exist, yet are not maintained by your sandbox, and it needs
> > to add them.  This is a safety feature.  To prevent accidental
> > overwrite.  Move these two files out of the way and redo your update.
> > 
> 
> This probably happens often enough that it should be added into the manual
> in the "Troubleshooting" section.


Better yet, fix the error message.

> > doanld
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:23:50AM -0500, Tony Ennis wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello. I am getting the following error message when updating. I have no
> > > idea what the problem is.
> > >
> > > cvs server: Updating .
> > > cvs checkout: move away grapevine/docs/graphics/help-terms.gif; it is in
> > > the way
> > > cvs checkout: move away grapevine/docs/graphics/search.gif; it is in the
> > > way
> > >
> > > Clearly, I don't understand why I have to move these two files and none
> > > of the other 200 files.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tony

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