Re: multiple versions of the same file imported

[Kaz Kylheku]

In article <address@hidden>, Shawn Hamzee wrote:
>Fellow hackers,
>
>In my company we just implemented version control utilizing cvs. when I try
>to import different resources into the newly created repositories, on some

Why the plural? Is there a specific reason why you have more than
one repository at the outset of this project? Where have you located
these repositories?

>directories, cvs creates multiple versions of the same file. For example
>when I run this command:
>
>
>cvs import -m "main import" /home/sbs mainjob start
>
>while in the directory /home/sbs, for certain files or perhaps in certain
>situations, cvs created multiple file such as this:
>
>index.html
>index.html,v
>index.html,v,v
>index.html,v,v,v

You have somehow managed to import a repository into itself.
In CVS, a repository lives in a different place from the working code.
CVS isn't RCS.