Re: multiple versions of the same file imported

[Larry Jones]

Shawn Hamzee writes:
> 
> 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

That's what happens if you're running an old version of CVS (you might
want to update to the current release -- 1.11.1p1 -- which you can find
at www.cvshome.org) and do an import inside the repository.  Your
repository should be a brand new directory that you create and initially
set up using "cvs init" -- not an existing directory with files that you
want to put into CVS.  When you do an import, you specify the *relative*
path inside the repository where the files are to be stored, not an
absolute path like in your above command.

-Larry Jones

You just can't ever be too careful. -- Calvin